The Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI) and EuropaBio organized a seminar entitled Unshackling Innovation: Will Europe block or enable GM crops? at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on September 27, 2016 to discuss concerns on genetically modified (GM) crops.
The United States Congress has ratified the historic International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture ("The Treaty") to strengthen American agriculture and enhance global food security.
Over 170 farmers, students, professors, and other stakeholders attended the public briefing and symposium about the Joint Department Circular on biotech crops and biosafety on September 28, 2016 at the Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention Center, Iloilo City.
Sequence-specific nucleases have been exploited to create targeted gene knockouts in various plants. However, replacing a fragment and even obtaining gene insertions at specific loci in plant genomes remain challenging. Chinese Academy of Sciences' Jun Li, along with a group of researchers, describes an efficient intron-mediated site-specific gene replacement and insertion that generate mutations using non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) using CRISPR/Cas9.
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The United States Congress has ratified the historic International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture ("The Treaty") to strengthen American 
Sequence-specific nucleases have been exploited to create targeted gene knockouts in various plants. However, replacing a fragment and even obtaining gene insertions at specific loci in plant 
