A majority of EU member states have spoken out in favour of less stringent genetic engineering rules, the EU Council ...

Johns Hopkins scientists say the innovation could bring 'new fruits, foods, and flavors' to an expanded global agricultural ...

This form of genetic engineering, he says, may help side-step some gene-engineering issues, such as the corporate ownership of key crop strains. Methylation turns genes on and off in plants by ...

A breeder can thus quickly evaluate the plants that are produced and then select those that best express the desired trait. Producing new varieties of crops through genetic engineering takes about ...

The genetic duplicates, or paralogs, played a crucial role in shaping traits such as flowering time, fruit size, and shape.

First, scientists have to understand where plants store selenium—whether the leaves, stems, roots, flowers or seeds—and then attempt to trace the exact genetic code that directs them to do so.

Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn't unheard of - tobacco has been ...

Risks of genetic engineering: Transfer of the selected gene ... Pollen produced by the plants could be toxic and harm insects that transfer it between plants. Scientists have added a gene to ...

Imagine stepping outside at night and being greeted by softly glowing leaves and flowers, casting an ethereal light over your ...

For example, plants can be engineered to absorb and degrade pollutants from soil or water ... To address these concerns, various efforts have been made to educate the public: As the field of genetic ...

To engineer the potato, Meacham-Hensold and her colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign focused on an inconvenient heat-triggered process in most plants called photorespiration ...