Climate-smart Rice Helps Farmers Face Climate Change |
 Stress-tolerant rice varieties can help farmers face the challenges of climate change, according to Matthew Morell, Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Morell stressed this during his Millenium Lecture at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India on February 10, 2017. Furthermore, he labeled rice as "the engine of food security" since more than half of the world's population consider rice as their daily staple food. Thus, the efforts of rice scientists to improve rice are vital in addressing hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.
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USPTO Releases Verdict on CRISPR Patent |
 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its decision on the issue of intellectual property rights to the gene-editing technique, CRISPR-Cas9. USPTO ruled that the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge could keep their patents on using the technique in eukaryotic cells. This means that University of California, Berkeley, has lost their battle over the rights to CRISPR.
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Fat Content in Soybean Oil Modified with CRISPR-Cpf1 |
 A research team from the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Research (IBS) in South Korea has successfully edited two genes that contribute to the fat content of soybean oil using the new CRISPR-Cpf1 technology. This technology is an alternative to the more widely used gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
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GM APPROVAL UPDATES |
- The Philippines approved the canola event LBFLFK for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved the cotton event GFM cry1A for commercial cultivation.
- Brazil approved the wheat event HB4 for commercial cultivation.
- The Philippines approved the soybean event GMB 151 for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved the eggplant event EE-1 for cultivation
- The USA approved the canola event MON94100 for food and feed.
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The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) in Australia has issued a license to the Queensland University of Technology, allowing the limited and controlled release (field trial) of potato 
