agriculture, genetics & genomics

A National Academies–led analysis evaluates the impacts of genetically engineered crops—and calls for updated regulations.

Scientists perform plant-genome modifications on crops without using plasmids.

The first two bulls genetically engineered to lack horns arrived at the University of California, Davis, for breeding.

Genetic engineering—once a trigger for federal oversight—is now ushering some modified crops around scrutiny.

New clues from ancient DNA reveal the remarkable effect of agriculture on adaptation in Stone Age humans who lived across Europe.

Brain Storms, Orphan, Maize for the Gods, and Paranoid.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

The country will opt-out of growing genetically modified foods that have been approved for cultivation in the European Union.

Understanding the genetics of stem cell population maintenance in plants producing jumbo tomatoes could help scientists generate more-massive fruits.

Scientists tracing the history of livestock breeding probe parchment documents for genetic information.

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the University of York excavate the genetic secrets contained in the DNA of old parchments.

Apples genetically modified to resist browning can be commercially planted in the U.S., the government ruled last week.

A genetic analysis of ancient and modern maize clarifies the crop’s checkered domestication history.

Five-thousand years after agricultural practices spread across Neolithic Europe, human populations remained unable to digest sugars from the milk of mammals.

Researchers have sequenced 360 varieties of the tomato plant to create a comprehensive map of the evolution of the fruit from its wild form to the modern varieties. 

Upping the expression of a single gene improves the plant’s ability to withstand light and increases yields. 

New technologies will make it easier to manipulate animal genomes, but food products from genetically engineered animals face a long road to market.

Will the public swallow science’s best solution to one of the most dangerous wheat pathogens on the planet?

See how a ruinous fungus that attacks wheat wreaks its damage.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes