Follow the Green G-Nome! In April 2017 EuropaBio published the new “The Green G-Nome’s Guide to GM Crops & Policies in the EU“, Copyright © 2017 EuropaBio. It is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the role and untapped potential of GM crops in Europe. Plant Biotechnology Information center-ABI …
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, led by Professor Jorge Dubcovsky, have recently discovered gene conferring resistance to the Ug99 strain of wheat stem rust that has caused significant losses in recent years in North Africa and Asia, becoming a world-wide threat. Wheat is essential for feeding humanity, and …
Researchers at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and The University of Manchester, UK, are using DNA sequencing to unlock the secrets of the world’s different soils and, for the first time, analysing ecological patterns and microbial communities on a global scale. The research team, made up of 36 scientists …
Australian researchers have developed and grown modified Cavendish bananas resistant to the devastating soil-borne fungus Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), also known as Panama disease. In a world-first GM field trial conducted in heavily TR4-infested soil, one Cavendish line transformed with a gene taken from a wild banana and …
The School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in collaboration with the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (CNRS, Strasbourg, France), has identified a new strategy to simultaneously enhance health-promoting vitamin E by ~6-fold and double both provitamin A and lycopene contents in tomatoes, …
Potato is the fourth most widely consumed plant food by humans after rice, wheat and corn, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is a staple food in some Asian, African and South American countries where there is a high incidence of vitamin A and vitamin E deficiencies. A …
Parthenocarpy in horticultural crops is an important trait of considerable importance for various industries related to agriculture as well as food quality. A team of scientists led by Risa Ueta of the Tokushima University in Japan developed a strategy for breeding of parthenocarpy in tomato based on the CRISPR/Cas9 genome …
Cucurbita crops are used as a staple food in many developing countries and are consumed all over the world. Scientists at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), USA and National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, China have sequenced the genomes of two important pumpkin species, Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata. The finished genomes appear in …
The next time you bite into that perfect, sweet and succulent watermelon, you may want to appreciate that it’s a product of millions of years of evolution in the making. The delectable fruits of the family of plants, known as Cucurbitaceae , are of considerable biological, economic, and agricultural importance, …
Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn by inserting a bacterial gene that causes it to produce a key nutrient called methionine, according to a new study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery could benefit millions …
