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Food security and the environmental impact of agriculture remain crucial sustainability challenges facing our world today. Genome editing technology has been increasingly applied...

Governments advance discussions on a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources.

A genetic manual for the nightshade family, which includes the potato, could help breeders choose the best plants.

Photosynthesis is a valuable natural system for sequestering carbon dioxide. However, simply forming biomass does not fully exploit this system. A Chinese team of researchers, whose...

Duckweeds are amongst the fastest growing of higher plants, making them attractive high-biomass targets for biofuel feedstock production. Their fronds have high rates...

Scientists drive oil accumulation in rapidly growing aquatic plants

This article outlines the potential of the development of bioeconomy in Poland in the context of the European Union (EU). The analyses take into account the concept of bioeconomy, the overview of documents referring to the bioeconomy in the EU...

This publication summarises the results of 50 selected research projects on genetically modified organisms (GMO), co-funded by the European Commission under the Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation, and conducted...

This Explanatory Note on New Techniques in Agricultural Biotechnology (new breeding techniques) responds to a request made to the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors by Vytenis Andriukaitis, European...

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