Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases – the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Twenty five years ago, the IAEA initiated a research programme on the development of in vitro mutagenesis in banana at the Plant Breeding Laboratory and since then has developed considerable and ...

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. “Molecular farming started out with transgenic plants,” said Rybicki. Scientists developed several strategies to produce transgenic ...

Plant biologists have developed a method for growing transgenic and gene-edited plants that cuts the slow and expensive process down from months to weeks. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Every cell within an organism shares an identical genetic blueprint. Their distinct identities stem from epigenetics—precise ...

Researchers from the University of Ottawa have discovered that plants may be able to control the genetics of their intimate root symbionts - the organism with which they live in symbiosis - thereby ...

Modifying the genetic structure of organisms is a central part of modern biotechnology. This article will discuss biotechnology and genetic engineering, providing an overview of the subject.

We have long toyed with the idea of molecular farming, that is, producing proteins using plant cells instead of animal cells. The gist is that you genetically modify plants so that their cells become ...