Food security and the environmental impact of agriculture remain crucial sustainability challenges facing our world today. Genome editing technology has been increasingly applied...
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Governments advance discussions on a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources.
Opening statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information...
Governments meet in Geneva to develop a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources
Delegates to UN Biodiversity Convention move from agreement to action by concluding COP 15 in Nairobi
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...
Scientists drive oil accumulation in rapidly growing aquatic plants
But more is still needed
Using living cells as mini-factories to produce plastic from nothing more than water, sunlight and carbon dioxide; plastic that is also 100 percent degradable – it sounds...