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By JAYSON LUSK and HENRY I. MILLER FEB. 2, 2014- Wheat farmers have suffered as a result, as have consumers of bread and pasta, who have been paying higher prices than they might have because fewer and fewer acres are planted in wheat. Without the benefits of the newer molecular techniques of genetic engineering...

Dr. Behzad Ghareyazie, who is considered as founder ofthe Modern Agricultural Biotechnology in Iran and the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII) is re-appointed as the new Director of the Institute. He had served as the director of the same institute from 1999 to 2005.

GEN News Highlights- Philosophers once spoke of the Music of the Spheres, the idea that the movements of celestial bodies express an underlying logic, and that astronomical measurements and mathematical relationships correspond to so many “tones.” Today, another sort of harmony ...

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)- A new study, published in a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences brings together nine of the worlds most important economic modeling teams with a focus on agriculture to compare their results about the future of agriculture.

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have completed the field trials of biotech wheat on December 31, 2013. The scientists used biotech tools to genetically engineer wheat that produces high levels of aphid-repelling odor called (E)-β-farnesene...

Russia will be allowed to cultivate biotech crops in 2014, according to government decree no. 839. The decision will be implemented starting July 1, 2014. However, the registration of commercial biotech seeds will take more years.

For centuries, marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis L.) has been used as a medicinal and ornamental plant. Valuable secondary products of metabolism have previously been identified in Agrobacterium rhizogenes-generated transgenic ‘hairy roots in this plant. Thus ...

The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracted the article Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize authored by a group led by Gilles Eric Seralini which was published in November 2012.

Scientists from Japan and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have discovered a rice gene that in preliminary testing increased production by 13-36% in modern long-grain indica rice varieties—the world’s most widely grown types of rice.

GEN News Highlights- Frederick Sanger, the British biochemist and double Nobel Laureate whose research laid essential groundwork for the sequencing of amino acids and later DNA, has died at age 95...