Airborne DNA could be crucial to protecting our food security. Every year, up to 40% of the world's crops are lost to pests and diseases, which costs farmers hundreds of billions of pounds.

The Donald Trump administration is exerting pressure on India to open up its market to American soyabean and maize, which are ...

Bt crops are cultivated on more than a quarter billion acres annually in dozens of countries due to their safety and effectiveness. In 2024, ... A Twist in the DNA.

Thus, Mahyco produced Bt brinjal primary transformant by incorporating the Bt gene into a bacterial plasmid DNA (pMON10518) and transferring this r-DNA by the common agrobacterium-mediated ...

Because of their efficacy and safety, Bt crops are grown in dozens of countries on more than a quarter billion acres each year. In the United States in 2024, ... A twist in the DNA.

Bt gets into streams and rivers by leaching out of crop debris left on fields through the now-ubiquitous industrial “no-till” farming technique, in which fields aren’t plowed after harvest ...

The first such plants incorporating DNA or RNA from other organisms hit the market in the 1990s. ... Refugia would be planted on the edges of non-Bt crops, with the idea that the resistant and ...

This means that farmers don't need to use as much pesticide on crops like Bt-corn – a 2020 study found that farmers with GMO crops reduced their pesticide use by 775.4 million kilograms (8.3% ...

Our journey of GM crops started with the haphazard/ illegal cultivation of Bt cotton around the turn of century; so did the benefits and misperceptions. India started at the same time but more ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly half of American farms grow genetically modified crops such as Bt corn or glyphosate-resistant (Roundup-ready) soybeans. Peter Goldsbrough , a plant scientist and expert ...

Bt crops are preferred by many because the Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans, ... Agrobacterium is a bacterium that transfers its DNA to plants using lateral gene transfer ...

Airborne DNA could be crucial to protecting our food security. Every year up to 40% of the world’s crops are lost to pests and diseases, which costs farmers hundreds of billions of pounds.Over four ...