Many of us reach for foods labelled as ‘organic’, assuming they’ll be free from chemical nasties and hold a higher nutritional value. But is this reputation deserved – and is organic food worth the hi...

An international research team, the “Healthy Crops” consortium, has developed rice varieties resistant to a detrimental crop disease in East Africa and Madagascar. The new varieties are resistant to b...

Scientists in the global south use the popular technique to protect local crops against local threats. Scientists in the global south use the popular technique to protect local crops against local thr...

Science Made Beerable was born of a desire to help beer drinkers better understand the connection between science and beer. And now, from this week, the team behind the venture is helping ensure the ...

How tissue-level information encoded by fields of regulatory gene activity is translated into the patterns of cell polarity and growth that generat...

Vandals uprooted the fungus-resistant Arborio rice, which was being tested in the country’s first ever field trial of a CRISPR-edited crop

Vandals uprooted the fungus-resistant Arborio rice, which was being tested in the country’s first ever field trial of a CRISPR-edited crop

Vandals uprooted the fungus-resistant Arborio rice, which was being tested in the country’s first ever field trial of a CRISPR-edited crop

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Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn

<em>New Phytologist</em> is an international journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.

Plant roots are functionally heterogeneous in cellular architecture, transcriptome profile, metabolic state, and microbial immunity. We hypothesized t…

Today, under cover of darkness, we're hunting buried treasure. This is a wild romp through one of the oldest science experiments in the world. And at first, everything was going to plan. Scientists ha...

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mRNA translation is tightly regulated by various classes of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) during development and in response to changing environmental conditions. In this study, we characterize the argi...

A robust strategy to obtain edited crops without integration of a transgene is developed based on co-editing the ALS gene and a gene of interest.