gene-editing

It points toward a new generation of disease-resistant rice that could protect harvests for billi...

It points toward soybeans (and potentially other crops) that need fewer pesticides and fungicides...

Every time you toast bread or bake cookies, a potentially cancer-linked chemical called acrylamid...

Crops like tomatoes, wheat, and medicinal herbs that feed and heal you could be improved far fast...

Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes you grow could soon be edited for disease resistance or better yi...

Crops engineered to resist drought, disease, or pests with large genetic upgrades — things that h...

It could lead to drought- and disease-resistant versions of the fruits, vegetables, and grains yo...

Bread, rice, and corn on your plate could soon come from crops engineered to survive the hotter, ...

It could accelerate the development of crops that resist drought, disease, and pests — meaning mo...

It could accelerate the development of crops that resist drought, pests, and disease — meaning mo...

It could lead to naturally sweeter tomatoes in grocery stores and home gardens — no artificial fl...

Rice is the staple food for half the world's population, and these molecular tools could soon pro...

Soybeans in your grocery store—from tofu to soybean oil to animal feed—could soon be nutritionall...

Better gene-editing tools bring us closer to crops that can survive drought, resist pests, or tol...

Soybeans are in roughly 70% of processed foods you eat, and these new precision editing tools cou...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and faster, more reliable gene-editing methods ...

Every squash vine, bean plant, and basil bunch in your garden runs its food-making engine at a fr...

Duckweed — the green film you see floating on ponds — could soon be engineered to grow the protei...

Tomatoes engineered to resist drought, rice bred to fight blight without pesticides, and vegetabl...

The tomatoes, wheat, and rice you grow or buy are increasingly battered by hotter summers and err...

Sorghum grows in the driest, hardest fields where other grains fail, and cleaner herbicide tolera...

The rice in your grocery store could become more abundant and cheaper as breeders use discoveries...

Better gene-editing tools mean scientists can more quickly and precisely develop disease-resistan...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and this more precise editing tool could accele...

The rice, wheat, and vegetables you eat could be made more nutritious, drought-resilient, or dise...

Cotton clothes, towels, and bedding could become stronger, softer, or more sustainably produced a...

Crops edited with greater precision and efficiency could mean disease-resistant tomatoes, drought...

Rice paddies breeding cleistogamous varieties could produce seed that stays genetically pure seas...

Rice varieties that resist new blights, tolerate flooding, and need less fertilizer all at once h...

Faster barley research means the drought-tolerant, disease-resistant varieties destined for farme...

Every dry bean in your pantry — black, pinto, kidney — exists because plant breeders have been ra...

Rice breeders working to develop drought-tolerant or disease-resistant varieties just gained a to...

Bacterial diseases that devastate rice, citrus, and pepper crops worldwide may soon be controllab...

Crops bred to hold up through a drought summer or a late frost in your region depend on scientist...

Algae engineered with sharper gene-editing tools could soon produce the sustainable biofuels and ...

Gene editing tools developed in medical research — like the base editors here — are the same foun...

The same CRISPR toolkit now entering human clinical trials for drug-resistant infections is alrea...

Cancer research rarely crosses into the garden, but the molecular signaling pathways studied here...