Top news of the week: 24.07.2022.
How biotechnology can protect indigenous ‘orphan crops’ from disease and boost economic growth
Despite their critical local importance, orphan, underutilized, and neglected crops tend to receive relatively limited attention in agricultural R&D initiatives.
CRISPR’s Next 10 Years: From Lab To Plate?
10 years on from its discovery, CRISPR’s potential for agricultural adaptation has started to gather momentum. We caught up with the industry’s leading specialists to find out what new ...
Field Trial Success Drives Advancement in Asian Soybean Rust Resistance
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, 2Blades and Corteva Agriscience announced they have reached a milestone in their collaboration to develop a transgene for Asian Soybean...
The Guardian and Carey Gillam join long list of activists who misrepresent the science of glyphosate and exaggerate the risk of pesticides
Within hours after journalist Carey Gillam’s article in The Guardian reported that the US Centers for Disease Control had found micro-traces of the weedkiller glyphosate (aka Roundup) ...
Why China’s embrace of GMO wheat and soy will change policies in South Africa and the rest of the continent
Chinese National Crop Variety Approval Committee released two standards that clear the path for cultivating genetically modified (GM) crops in the country — wheat and soy.
Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Latest Collaboration for Beauty and Personal Care Industry with Sumitomo Chemical
Through this partnership, Sumitomo Chemical will leverage Ginkgo's extensive codebase and expertise in organism engineering to produce molecules in a sustainable fashion that are …
In the Battle to Regulate GMOS, Gene Editing and other New Breeding Techniques, Who Has ‘Hazard Blood’ on their Hands?
This third segment in the mini-series will look at the networks of highly-motivated campaigners manipulating policy and pushing the hazard-based approach for their own advantage. The series ...
ASA & Others Support Beagle Brigade Act to Protect U.S. Ag from Foreign Animal, Plant Diseases
USAID’s announcement may result in an increase to that amount.” ASA and other leading industry associations this week launched the Ag Bioeconomy Coalition to advance federal …