Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England Plants’ genetic defences may hold key for crop protection, researchers say Improving the stress memory of crops could make them more resistant to attack and reduce the need for harmful pesticides, a new study suggests.
Good News UW-Madison researchers studying more targeted alternative to pesticides RNA interference could be better for the environment, professor says.
Impacts Food fears grow as swarms of locusts reach Uganda and Tanzania Outbreak in east Africa has already devastated crops across a swath of Kenya and Somalia.