Lee Quaintance, an organic farmer in Edgerton, is concerned about a plan to grow genetically modified rice in Junction City and how it could affect his crops. The world's first crop of genetically ...

Backers say rice variety is a cheap way to fix vitamin A deficiency, but a Philippine court ruling could delay sowing in Bangladesh. A court in the Philippines has sided with green campaigners and ...

Golden rice (GR), a genetically modified (GM) crop, is a public-sector product deliberately designed to add vitamin A to diets to deal with the deficiency. Its inventors, Ingo Potrykus of the ...

Extreme weather and pollution have increased the salt content in some soil, making growing conditions harsh for ...

Biosafety certificates for genetically modified (GM) rice and maize issued by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture late last year have prompted a protest from over a hundred intellectuals and ...

They believe the method could be used to significantly boost yields from important crops including rice and wheat. The study has been published in the journal Science. Researchers are growing ...

Bacterial cells have been genetically modified to produce human insulin and other substances. The advantage of golden rice is that it can be used in areas where vitamin A deficiency is common ...

Golden Rice is the first genetically modified rice variety for improved nutrition developed by PhilRice with the International Rice Research Institute, which contains additional levels of beta ...

application to plant the genetically-modified (GM) rice MR219 on a test field. A total of 54 community and farmer organisations as well as NGOs jointly submitted a memorandum of protest to the ...