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Pest and pathogen management to optimize crop health, productivity, food quality and safety is critical to global food security, and ultimately, to the cost and affordability of food. Several methods ...

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Genetically modified horticulture plants represent a dynamic intersection of modern biotechnology and agricultural practice, aimed at addressing challenges in food security, nutritional quality and ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — Lawmakers on the European Parliament’s environment committee on Wednesday backed a proposal to relax rules on genetically modified plants produced using so-called new genomic ...

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of ...