France’s researchers and experts support Agriculture Minister’s vision for new plant breeding technologies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE French Association of Plant Biotechnologies (AFBV), bringing together around a hundred researchers and experts in the field of green biotechnology, welcomes the position taken by French Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie, which favors new plant breeding technologies (NPBT or NBT). In a press release, AFBV states that such technologies make it possible to speed up […]
Study Shows Climate Change May Have Driven Emergence of SARS-CoV-2
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA STUDY conducted by researchers from the University of Cambridge published in the journal Science of the Total Environment provides the first evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The study revealed large-scale changes in the type of vegetation in the southern Chinese […]
Carnegie scientists uncover nutrient-sensing capabilities of plants as answer to climate change
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSCIENTISTS from the Carnegie Institute of Science discovers a method by which plants can switch their response based on their changing environment. The team of scientists discovered an evolutionarily conserved protein that plays a unique role in regulating stress responses and key developmental transitions such as seed germination and flowering. The scientists then applied sugar […]
Awareness of GM rice’s benefits affects public acceptance in Malaysia
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRESEARCHERS from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation conducted a study to determine the Malaysian stakeholders’ intention to purchase high-yielding genetically modified (GM) rice. The results exhibited that the Malaysian public were moderately enthusiastic about it. The survey was conducted from March to December 2013 through individual questionnaires administered face to face to […]
24 World Food Prize laureates urge US President to make fighting global hunger top priority
Reading Time: < 1 minuteON February 23, 2021, 24 World Food Prize Laureates through the World Food Prize Foundation released an open letter, U.S. Leadership Needed to Help End World Hunger, urging the Biden-Harris Administration to focus on alleviating hunger, poverty, and malnutrition around the globe. The World Food Prize Laureates last came together for a global call to action 19 […]
Indonesia passes post-monitoring regulation for genetically engineered crops
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE Ministry of Agriculture passed Regulation 50/2020 that provides guidelines for establishing a post-monitoring evaluation scheme for genetically engineered (GE) crops. The guidelines were developed in accordance with the country’s regulatory framework through Regulation 21/2005. Indonesia adopted its national biosafety regulatory framework in 2005 but GE crop varieties have failed to reach commercialization due to the lack […]