Genetically modified crops have long drawn fire from opponents worried about potential contamination of conventional crops and other plants. Now a plant gene discovered by University of Guelph scientists might help farmers ...
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Feb 19, 2015
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The European Union is taking a big step toward giving EU member states the power to ban the cultivation of genetically modified crops even if they have been approved by the food safety authority of the 28-nation bloc.
Biotechnology
Dec 4, 2014
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In 1992, a pair of scientists had a brainwave: how about inserting genes into rice that would boost its vitamin A content?
Biotechnology
Jul 8, 2014
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While the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and China and many other countries have warmly embraced genetically modified crops, Europe remains the world's big holdout.
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Jul 6, 2014
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Most of the debate around genetically modified (GM) foods has focused on health and nutrition, or the potential impact on the Australian agricultural industry. There has been less attention to the role of private, profit-driven ...
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Jun 30, 2014
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The European Union will allow member countries to make their own decisions on growing genetically modified (GM) food in a compromise deal on Thursday that followed years of fraught discussions.
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Jun 12, 2014
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After years of fractious talks, EU states have finally reached a compromise to allow cultivation of genetically modified (GM) food crops by giving their opponents an opt out, official sources said Wednesday.
Biotechnology
May 28, 2014
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An Australian farmer who lost his organic produce licence after his fields were contaminated by a neighbour's genetically modified canola crop failed Wednesday to win his test case for losses.
Biotechnology
May 28, 2014
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France definitively banned the growing of genetically modified corn on Monday after its highest court and Senate both confirmed an existing ban.
Biotechnology
May 5, 2014
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A sack-hauling time traveler from the 21st century lands in an Irish potato field in 1849, just before a terrible famine, and asks: If you thought genetically modified (GM) potatoes could avert late blight disease, spare ...
Biotechnology
May 2, 2014
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