April 30, 2019
Australian gene-editing rules adopt ‘middle ground’ - Updated regulations allow scientists to use some genome-editing techniques in plants and animals without government approval (Nature)
April 24, 2019
January 9, 2019
Transgenic trees face rocky path from farm to forest - Report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlights thorny issues with releasing engineered trees into the wild (Nature)
December 13, 2018
A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds (Nature)
October 31, 2018
Use the patent system to regulate gene editing (Nature)
October 5, 2018
Super-tomato shows what plant scientists can do - A better-tasting tomato highlights problems with Europe’s outdated approach to gene editing (Nature)
August 16, 2018
Improved nutrient use gives cereal crops a boost - Manipulation of the transcription factor OsGRF4 can improve the efficiency with which some high-yielding cereal crops use nitrogen - This discovery has implications for sustainable agriculture (Nature)
July 26, 2018
CRISPR plants now subject to tough GM laws in European Union - Top court’s ruling threatens research on gene-edited crops in the bloc (Nature)
March 23, 2018
Rethink public engagement for gene editing - The breadth of social and moral questions raised requires a new architecture for democratic debate, insists Simon Burall (Nature)
A global observatory for gene editing - Sheila Jasanoff and J. Benjamin Hurlbut call for an international network of scholars and organizations to support a new kind of conversation (Nature)
January 26, 2018
European court suggests relaxed gene-editing rules - Judicial opinion says restrictive regulations may not apply to plants and animals bred using CRISPR technique (Nature)
November 9, 2017
The bitter battle over the world’s most popular insecticides - As regulators consider a ban on neonicotinoids, debate rages over the harm they cause to bees (Nature)
Genetically modified apple reaches US stores, but will consumers bite? Success for the ‘Arctic apple’ could herald a new wave of lab-grown foods (Nature)
November 2, 2017
Small group scoops international effort to sequence huge wheat genome - Just six scientists conquer one of the most complicated genomes ever read (Nature)
September 27, 2017
Yemen identified as “stepping stone” to wheat stem rust’s global spread
August 24, 2017
The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions (Nature)
July 28, 2017
'True blue' chrysanthemum flowers produced with genetic engineering - Scientists added two genes to the plant's genome to get the new hue (Nature)
June 29, 2017
Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees - Scientists say the industry-funded work confirms that neonicotinoids are harmful, but manufacturers question its conclusions (Nature)
June 13, 2017
Harmonize conflicting regulations for genetically engineered plants and animals - Researchers must seize the chance to inject scientific sense into US governance of modified crops and livestock (Nature)
June 6, 2017
Plant genetics - Branching out for crop improvement (Nature)
May 23, 2017
Fixing the tomato: CRISPR edits correct plant-breeding snafu - Geneticists harness two mutations — each cherished by breeders, but detrimental when combined — to improve on 10,000 years of tomato domestication (Nature)
May 19, 2017
Fixing the tomato: CRISPR edits correct plant-breeding snafu - Geneticists harness two mutations - each cherished by breeders, but detrimental when combined - to improve on 10,000 years of tomato domestication (Nature)
April 6, 2017
Rapid breeding of parthenocarpic tomato plants using CRISPR/Cas9 (Nature)
March 17, 2017
CRISPR, microbes and more are joining the war against crop killers - Agricultural scientists look beyond synthetic chemistry to battle pesticide resistance (Nature)
February 24, 2017
Gene editing in legal limbo in Europe - The European Union is dragging its feet on gene-editing rules and scientists should push the issue (Nature)
February 6, 2017
Deadly new wheat disease threatens Europe’s crops - Researchers caution that stem rust may have returned to world’s largest wheat-producing region (Nature)
January 26, 2017
Plant biologists welcome their robot overlords - Old-school areas of plant biology are getting tech upgrades that herald more detailed, faster data collection (Nature)
January 20, 2017
India’s first GM food crop held up by lawsuit - Scientists accused of deceiving the public about benefits of transgenic mustard (Nature)
December 1, 2016
A new global research agenda for food (Nature)
September 27, 2016
New evidence for grain specific C4 photosynthesis in wheat (Nature)
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