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Genetically Modified Rice Could Withstand the Ravages of Climate Change Feb 10, 2016 at 6:02 AM EST . Researchers at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, ...
The genetically modified rice variety provides “a tremendous opportunity for more-sustainable rice cultivation,” Paul Bodelier, a microbial ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, ...
Researchers from China have copied a key gene in a rice crop that can enable 40 percent higher yields. This could have major implications for the world's food supply.
China appears to have given the green light to GMO rice. In 2023, researchers reported the second harvest of an experimental, high-stature GMO rice. The crop's increased height may allow plants to ...
Last November, over the howls of anti-GMO (that's genetically modified organisms) activists, the USDA retroactively approved the Liberty Link rice, known as LL601.
If so, then golden rice will be delayed for many months, or even longer if more vandalism is done or if the anti-GMO activists find other strategies to hamper and delay the scientists’ work.
Chinese scientists have successfully genetically modified rice to produce coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), an essential molecule for human health. This breakthrough could revolutionize nutritional approaches ...
China's health authorities will investigate allegations that genetically modified (GMO) rice was tested on Chinese children as part of a Sino-U.S. research project, state media said on Tuesday.
New research suggests that genetically modified rice could provide a way to prevent HIV. In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from the ...
ST. LOUIS (CN) – The Eighth Circuit said Riceland Foods may have to give farmers’ attorneys some of the money it won from Bayer CropScience in a lawsuit over genetically modified rice. Beginning in ...
In the U.S., a genetically modified rice developed by Bayer CropScience was detected in the rice supply chain in 2006, causing a huge scandal and millions of dollars in losses for farmers as the ...
U.S. regulators' latest move to sanction a strain of biotech rice may do little to soothe lingering doubts about the oversight of genetically modified foods destined for export markets, analysts ...