John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Organic, Vegetables, Fruit, Food/Nutrition, GMO's, Antibiotics, Fertilizer,
Fuel it: The pros and cons of organic food
Organic food is food produced or farmed in ways that avoid the use of chemical fertilisers, antibiotics, hormones and GMO
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10/24/2020 SOURCE: sciencebusiness.net
The EU should make use of innovative breeding technologies to boost sustainability of food production, agriculture ministers agreed on Monday, as they gave their stamp of approval to the European Commission’s ‘Farm to Fork’ plan to reduce the use of fertilisers by 30 per cent and turn 25 per cent of agricultural land over to organic farming. The ministers called for the use of “new innovative ingredients and techniques” to boost sustainable food production, as long as they are shown to be safe for humans, animals and the environment. This was with reference to precision breeding using gene editing, which enables genetically modified organisms to be generated without introducing genes from other species. As things stand, the technology cannot be used in the EU, following a 2018 ruling by the European Court of Justice, which founds genome editing is subject to the 2001 EU directive banning genetically modified organisms. Researchers in 120 institutes across Europe have asked the commission to reverse the court ruling, arguing precision breeding and genome editing are a speeded-up equivalent of traditional breeding techniques and could increase the genetic diversity of crop plants, reduce use of pesticides, and further the development of healthy food. Agriculture ministers want the commission to complete its study of the status of novel genomic techniques under EU legislation by April 2021. The commission’s view is that precision farming technologies should underpin the transition to eco-friendly food production. Frans Timmermans, the commission’s executive vice-president for the European Green Deal said the EU aims to give farmers the tools to adopt precision agriculture and to leverage scientific discoveries to optimise seeds. “That's how we limit our dependency on pesticides,” Timmermans told delegates at the EU Green Week conference last week. “Going to ecological farming doesn't mean we all have to munch on grass and live in caves, we need to use the latest technology to get us ther...
Member states want commission to decide on the use of gene editing in animal and plant breeding
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Randy Krotz
Topics: GMO's, Cellular Meat, Plant-Based/Animal Free, Consumer/Retail,
Plant-based NON-GMO and Organic Food Ingredient Supplier Green Boy Launches Plant-Meat Protein™
/PRNewswire/ -- Green Boy Group announced today that it has launched Plant-Meat Protein™; a functional plant-based protein powder that is NON-GMO and developed...
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10/19/2020 SOURCE: www.europeanscientist.com
The GMO and GE technologies are complementary and indispensable for the release of new plants able to solve new emergencies that can affect global food security and safety. In several countries the lack of acceptance of these technologies are limiting the research and the access to the results and benefits that can be achieved. Taking […]
The reckless insistence on banning GMO trials
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Corn/Maize, Cotton, Sugarcane, Agriculture US, Vegetables, GMO's, Potatoes, Research, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Ag Europe, Genes /Genetics, World Hunger, World Population,
The place of Europe in the new plant breeding landscape: evolution of field trials
Abstract CRISPR-cas gene editing in crop plants could significantly speed up the progress of breeding programs. Strikingly in the agricultural sector, the number of CRISPR-cas patents originating from Europe trails far behind the USA and China. Examining field trials is another mean to compile biotechnological innovation in plant breeding. We examined field trials since 2002 […]
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10/16/2020 SOURCE: www.prnewswire.com
GMO Seed Corn in China
/PRNewswire/ -- Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED) (the "Company" or "Origin"), an agriculture technology company, today announced that the company has been...
Origin Agritech Highlights its GMO Corn Seed Production Capabilities
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Wheat, Corn/Maize, Rice, Cotton, Vegetables, Water, GMO's, Research, Genes /Genetics, Regenerative Agriculture, Ag Middle East,
Helping grains thrive in increasingly salty soil
Piloted in Israel and India, SaliCrop’s chemical process changes seed DNA to respond well in high salinity, without genetic engineering.
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Randy Krotz
10/11/2020 SOURCE: www.salon.com
The Nobel Prize was given to scientists who discovered a tool that helps us precisely alter DNA
CRISPR researchers, awarded the Nobel Prize, say the technology could defeat coronavirus
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Randy Krotz
10/11/2020 SOURCE: www.salon.com
The Nobel Prize was given to scientists who discovered a tool that helps us precisely alter DNA
CRISPR researchers, awarded the Nobel Prize, say the technology could defeat coronavirus
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Randy Krotz
10/11/2020 SOURCE: www.salon.com
The Nobel Prize was given to scientists who discovered a tool that helps us precisely alter DNA
CRISPR researchers, awarded the Nobel Prize, say the technology could defeat coronavirus
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