The Canadian government is considering approving gene-edited pigs for entry into the food system. If approved, these pigs would become the first gene-edited food animals to reach the Canadian market. ...

A new study presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague brings a new perspective to agricultural carbon reduction. Based on more than 100 years of data from the Mississippi River Basin and detai...

Wild plants can contribute valuable genes to their domesticated relatives, but reproductive barriers and a lack of genomic resources have long hindered the effective use of crop-wild gene introgressio...

A new study on tomatoes from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has yielded important results, providing the strongest evidence to date for explaining the differences in vine morphology among differ...

Agriculture is one of the major contributors to the climate crisis. Large agribusinesses are promoting agricultural innovations to increase soil carbon sequestration, known as "carbon farming," whic...

A team of chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has achieved a major breakthrough in the study of Rubisco, the key enzyme in photosynthesis. Using directed evolution techniques, they s...

With increasing demand for healthier alternatives to traditional wheat-based products, exploration of novel functional ingredients has gained momentum. Recently, a research team led by biologist Leona...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made significant progress in the field of agricultural remote sensing technology. The drone remote sensing technology they developed can detect, eigh...

In the UK's June spending review, nature conservation appears to have received positive news, with the government setting an ambition to allocate up to £2 billion per year by 2028–29 for the Envir...

Rice serves as the staple food for more than half of the global population, yet its cultivation is highly resource-intensive, requiring large amounts of water and chemical fertilizers. Amid the curren...

The University of Queensland has successfully developed and validated an innovative software package called dsRNAmax, which leverages RNA interference (RNAi) technology to provide a safe, effective, a...

American researchers are developing an innovative artificial intelligence microscope system aimed at enabling farmers and land managers worldwide to perform soil health testing more quickly, affordabl...