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File photo of equipment tracks over a field in England. (Georgeclerk/E+/Getty Images)

Regulations on gene-edited crops to be eased in England

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 29, 2021

London | Reuters — Britain’s farming and environment minister George Eustice announced Wednesday that regulations related to gene editing in agricultural research would be eased in England following a public consultation. Rules will now largely be aligned with conventional breeding methods for research and development into plants although scientists will still be required to notify […] Read more

File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 18, 2021

Paris | Reuters — France sees crops developed using gene-editing techniques as different to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and opposes a European Union court decision to put them under strict GMO regulations, the country’s agriculture minister said. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in 2018 that mutagenesis, among so-called new breeding techniques (NBT) based […] Read more

Tests of potato genetic material, loaded onto an agarose gel, show the presence of an experimental gene. (Ken Hackman photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Reuters

USDA limits review requirements of some biotech farm products

By GFM Network News May 15, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday a rule that will simplify or waive agency reviews of certain biotech farm products, including plants and seeds that have been genetically modified or engineered. As a result, some products could be sold to farmers without a USDA review — a move that […] Read more

Chicks atop images from a genetic map of a chicken. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Gene-edited chickens planned in bid to halt next pandemic

By GFM Network News January 22, 2019

London | Reuters — British scientists are developing gene-edited chickens designed to be totally resistant to flu in a new approach to trying to stop the next deadly human pandemic. The first of the transgenic chicks will be hatched later this year at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said Wendy […] Read more

The grand chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union, in Luxembourg. (Curia.europa.eu)

Crops, Reuters

GMO rules cover plant gene editing technique, top EU court says

By GFM Network News July 26, 2018

Brussels | Reuters — Crops obtained by plant breeding technique mutagenesis should fall under laws restricting the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Europe’s highest court said on Wednesday, in a victory for environmental campaigners. The biotech industry had argued that much of mutagenesis, or gene editing, is effectively little different to the mutagenesis that […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Limagrain says GMO protests could force R+D relocation

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 17, 2018

Paris | Reuters — Limagrain, the world’s fourth-largest seed maker, will consider moving its research activities out of France if field trials in its home market continue to be sabotaged by opponents of genetically modified crops. The French co-operative group was targeted last month by protestors who invaded test fields southeast of Paris and scattered […] Read more

Crops, Features

Apomixis 101

By Julienne Isaacs February 27, 2017

Apomixis could be called the Holy Grail of plant breeding. According to Rob Duncan, a canola breeder at the University of Manitoba, scientists have been working on it since the 1840s. Even Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, caught the apomixis bug, analyzing the apomictic properties of hawkweed species in the 1860s. What is […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology

By GFM Network News December 8, 2015

London | Reuters — A British animal genetics firm, working with U.S. scientists, has bred the world’s first pigs resistant to a common viral disease, using the hot new technology of gene editing. Genus, which supplies pig and bull semen to farmers worldwide, said on Tuesday it had worked with the University of Missouri to […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Gene editing could pave way for pig organ transplants

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 12, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. researchers have used a new gene editing technique to trim away potentially harmful virus genes that have impeded the use of pig organs for transplants in humans. The study, published in the journal Science, expands on capabilities of the genome editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9, which works as a type […] Read more

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Tag Archives gene editing

Regulations on gene-edited crops to be eased in England

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

USDA limits review requirements of some biotech farm products

Gene-edited chickens planned in bid to halt next pandemic

GMO rules cover plant gene editing technique, top EU court says

Limagrain says GMO protests could force R+D relocation

Apomixis 101

Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology

Gene editing could pave way for pig organ transplants

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