As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of their prickles entirely ...

A new study published in Plant Physiology opens the door to developing more robust and cold-resistant tomato (Solanum ...

Transferring one species to another is how to create genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. This creates something not ...

Australia's first genetically modified banana has been tweaked to protect it from a disease that's on the verge of wiping out ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

To overcome this challenge, it will take farmers like me. We can’t fight in the court of law, but we can make our voices ...

ROCKVILLE, MD -- In covering the issue of genetically modified crops, the national media have generally reported the views of anti-biotech interest group representatives, biotechnology company ...

Although genetically modified crops have some big advantages over their regular counterparts, initially creating the modified plants can be quite challenging. Scientists have now developed a simpler ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported on Monday. Sign up here. Researchers at ...

Great. Humans have done it again. First, the Yangtze river dolphin extinction, then the Gulf oil spill, and now this. Not that I didn't see it coming. I did. You know, it's always worse when you do ...

Researchers have developed a way to improve crop quality without needing to create special genetically modified plants. The new technique relies on a spray that introduces bioactive molecules into ...