The Philippines has released its revised biotechnology regulations that aim to improve the bureaucratic process and speed up the approval of biotech products that impact food security.
The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals that despite efforts to reduce the risks, human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the IPCC report.
For the first time, researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne have completely decoded the highly complex genome of the potato.
Researchers from Kansas State University (K-State) have published the results of their work that characterized numerous wheatgenes duplicated thousands of years ago to understand how they control the crop's yield and other desirable traits.
