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What are NGTs, how do they differ from GMOs and how are they agriculturally applied and regulated in the EU? View on euronews ...
BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have successfully completed the world's first telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly of hexaploid bread wheat, marking a major breakthrough in wheat genome ...
By controlling male fertility, this new gene could help address challenges in the development of highly productive hybrid wheat.    Wheat provides 20% of global food calories, but creating ...
The licence for the wheat edit covers the entirety of China, and is valid through May 2029, when it will be up for further renewal. "Plant diseases cause losses of 11-30 per cent in crop ...
Cattivelli, an expert on the wheat genome, says the next chapter of the story deals with our immediate future; scientists must develop new varieties of wheat and other staple crops to meet the rapid ...
A study shows how manipulating epigenetic variation in wheat can reveal valuable heritable traits for crop improvement. By ...
The findings provide strategies to engineer wheat that has stronger immunity against infection. As the main food staple for billions of people and one of the main sources of animal feed ...
Following these findings, the team developed a new hexaploid crop, Tritordeum (AABBII), by replacing wheat’s ‘D’ subgenome with H. brevisubulatum’s I genome. This new crop has exhibited a ...
BEIJING -- Scientists have successfully completed the world's first telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly of hexaploid bread wheat, marking a major breakthrough in wheat genome research.