Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

A centre of excellence for crop biotechnology is set be established to develop and deploy disease-resistant seeds under a new five-year project, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal ...

Lynn Dahleen's work in the smallest of places, the gene structure of plants, could pay off in a big way. For four years, she has toiled in her Fargo laboratory, inserting foreign genes into barley.

The antibiotechnology crowd has adopted a new talking point, claiming that biotechnology does not increase yields. Have these people never been to a farm to see what weeds and insects do to crop ...

The World Trade Organization ruled yesterday that a six-year European ban on genetically engineered crops violates international trade rules, according to U.S. sources familiar with the ruling. The ...

Last year, more than 10 million acres of Nebraska's 18.5 million acres of principal cropland was planted to biotech crop varieties. The increasing number of biotech acres in Nebraska is reflective of ...

REUTERS - The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A U.S. Department of State trade policy adviser said he hopes developing countries will come on board with crop biotechnology to help end hunger and poverty around the world.

Good judgement and common sense prevailed when North Dakota lawmakers recently defeated a bill that would have required biotech seed developers to bear much of the liability relating to the planting ...

Africa doubled the number of countries planting biotech crops from three in 2018 to six in 2019, leading the progress among the regions of the world in GM crop adoption. This is according to the ...