A research group led by Nagoya University in Japan has discovered a new tissue in plants that is essential for seed formation ...

From GM foods to nuclear power, there is no shortage of incorrect and harmful messaging on the left side of the spectrum ...

rice crops developed by Sacramento biotech company, Ventria biosciences. This brings the company one step closer to the country’s first commercialization of a drug-producing food crop. Ventria’s ...

Though recent discoveries have revealed how rice plants mitigate such threats by initiating immune responses against insect-borne viruses, the molecular mechanism by which plant hosts perceive ...

The authors calculated that this could eventually reduce yields of staple crops such as rice, wheat and maize by between 4% and 14%. How realistic is this scenario? While the new study does not ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens.

With the new methods, the use of pesticides could be reduced and plants with fewer allergens could be developed. Gene-editing techniques are regulated in the EU by the genetic modification (GMO) ...

Some important new varieties, of which ‘IR8’ is the most famous, and methods of culture have come from the International Rice Research Institute since its inception in 1962.

A genetically modified organism ... when adopting a new strategy for something as ancient as farming. Take Golden Rice, a biofortified crop, or a type of plant that’s enhanced for better ...