Many methods are still being explored. Scientists make key breakthrough in fight to protect food supply — here's what's ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Increasingly, global food production is being threatened by the effects of climate change. As floods, droughts, and extreme heat waves become more common, crops need to be able to adapt faster than ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on November 13, 2024, that it added modifications a plant may contain and qualify for exemption ...

Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme temperatures. But shrinking funds and social acceptance stand in the way. By Rebecca Dzombak The world’s bread baskets are ...

Climate change is affecting the types of plant varieties we can cultivate, as well as how and where we can do so. A new collection of articles in the open access journal PLOS Biology explores the twin ...

A team of researchers at the University of California – Berkely have designed a new approach to programming plants that can produce the necessary components to make infant formula that is just as ...

With a goal of breeding resilient crops that are better able to withstand drought and disease, University of California San Diego scientists have developed the first CRISPR-Cas9-based gene drive in ...

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Special issue of PLOS Biology explores plant engineering as a tool to improve the climate resilience and carbon capture potential of crops To meet the agricultural challenges caused by climate change ...