The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Food productivity is dependent on the availability of fertilizer, says Utah State University biochemist Lance Seefeldt. "We ...

In this issue, we explore the topic of plant biotechnology. With a rapidly growing population, policymakers and scientists are asking: How will humans produce enough food to feed our growing numbers?

In agricultural biotechnology, changes are made directly to the plant's genome. Once the gene that determines a desirable trait is identified, it can be selected, extracted, and transferred ...

“Restoration and biotechnology efforts can mitigate these losses ... History Museum told Interesting Engineering that ...

But what are these solutions? Biotechnology offers a very promising alternative to synthetic foods and an improvement on conventional plant-breeding technologies. Combined with other advanced ...

Raphael Chibunda, SUA Deputy Vice Chancellor, affirmed this at the weekend during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Crop Science Association of Tanzania (CROSAT) in Dodoma. The ...

This comprehensive book covers the underlying scientific principles, state of the art technologies and methodologies of plant mutagenesis. It covers historical development and commonly used ...

An international, Gates Foundation-funded collaboration reports new knowledge that could simplify genetic transfer of ...

"Eight hundred million people on this planet are malnourished," says Channapatna Prakash, a native of India and an agricultural scientist at the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee ...

How we use land and feed a growing global population, and the burden we place on natural habitats in pursuit of nutrition, ...

BEIJING, Nov 10 (Reuters) - China and Indonesia signed deals worth $10 billion at the Indonesia-China Business Forum in ...