Grist

JULY 17, 2023

For a lot of us, once in a while in the news we’ll hear, “Oh, we’re not going to have our bananas anymore,” or “The frogs are dying,” or “The bats are dying.” But you hear those warnings and then it goes out of the news cycle and seems like, oh, OK that was a weird thing. Why did you choose to focus on fungi this time?

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Better Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Embracing Ancient Wisdom and Modern Insight to Improve Health Introduction Oh, food. We now have novel tools like precision gene editing and protein engineering that have shaped our ability to engage with biology. I could talk about the role that food has played in our lives for ages.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

researchers are editing the genome of rice in tests to add disease resistance or edit out genes that make the plant susceptible. They look for a plant that might have poor yield but has good disease resistance and then remove the resistant genes and place them in a high-yielding commercial variety. And a team of U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In turn, the book investigates those plant species which are very closely related to field crops and have the potential to contribute beneficial traits for crop improvement, e.g. resistance to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stresses, enriching the gene pool, and ultimately leading to enhanced plant yield, known as “Crop Wild Relatives” (CWRs).

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