Across the world, farmers are locked in an arms race with pests and pathogens. For decades, pesticides have been their most ...

Several dozen transgenic food crops are currently on the market ... "Beta-carotene, which is already widely available in fruit and vegetables, isn't converted to vitamin A when people are ...

(Image: Adapted from National Human Genome Research Institute) Transgenic crops, also known as genetically modified (GM) crops, have been developed to improve agricultural productivity and ...

This breakthrough in genetic engineering provides a more direct and efficient way to produce transgenic plants, heralding a new era in agricultural biotechnology. The research centered on refining ...

The findings open avenues for using metabolic engineering in crops to ... tomatoes using fruit-specific and constitutive ...

Genome editing with CRISPR and other tools is an exciting new technology with myriad applications from human health ...

In a growing and changing world, we need to find ways of putting food on everyone's table. Pesticides have enabled mass ...

Most of Florida’s orange crops took a direct hit from Hurricane Milton, marking a major setback for growers in the state that ...

It means each banana plant is genetically almost identical, producing a reliably consistent fruit crop. From a business ... is also supporting ongoing transgenic research. However, despite strong ...

But the prickly pear and others are now being tested as a delicious fruit crop. Cereus repandus, for example — the Peruvian apple cactus — is being grown successfully in Israel; some say its ...

Coffee prices have soared to a 13-year high, thanks in part to rising demand for the world’s smelliest fruit. International ... to switch robusta coffee crops out for durian because it is ...