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Comment: GMO and GE could be powerful solutions, if we let them be
Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Comment: GMO and GE could be powerful solutions, if we let them be

Breaking down the details on gene editing and GMOs and the issues surrounding them

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Advances in genetic engineering have given rise to an era of foods that promise to revolutionize how we eat. Critics argue these foods could pose risks to human health and the environment. Proponents point to their potential for enhancing yields, reducing food waste and even combating climate change. Although GMOs and gene-edited foods have been
File photo of a CFIA vehicle. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

Gene-edited crops clear CFIA’s regulatory bar

Agency guidance puts gene editing on level of conventional breeding

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Plants gene-edited for efficient use of water or nutrients or to better withstand pests or drought now won’t have to clear the same regulatory hurdles in Canada as any crops that are modified for herbicide tolerance or include foreign genes. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Wednesday announced updated guidance from the Canadian Food Inspection
Scientists around the world have demonstrated the use of gene editing tools is as safe as any of the methods that have been used for thousands of years.
Comment, Op/Ed

Opinion: Plant-breeding innovations fuel future

This new technology can help solve some of the biggest challenges of tomorrow

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Just as we’ve seen the importance of science and innovation in combating the current public health challenge, they stand to play an equally important role in helping agriculture tackle the challenges it faces ahead. New pests and major weather events are increasing, making the job of producing food for a growing population even more challenging.
Letters: Concerned for the future of seed
Letters, Other

Letters: Concerned for the future of seed

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As a farmer I am keenly aware of the importance of genetics when it comes to raising life, be it plant or animal. This does not make me unique, but rather defines a farmer’s historic relationship with the life we have been entrusted with, the idea being that genetics matter. This historic relationship has been
Most major health authorities have concluded that consuming GMO ingredients in food does not pose either short- or long-term health risks. But most of this doesn’t matter in the eyes of the average consumer.
Comment, Other

Comment: Gene editing a risk communication fiasco in the making

There are powerful arguments for this technology, but the industry isn’t making them

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We are hearing more about gene-edited foods. It’s an intriguing concept for some but perhaps a scary one for others. We don’t know whether Canadian consumers will want to eat gene-edited food. There’s a lot of excitement in agriculture about the introduction of gene-edited food products into the Canadian food system over the next few
The grand chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union, in Luxembourg. (Curia.europa.eu)
Crops

GMO rules cover plant gene editing technique, top EU court says

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Brussels | Reuters — Crops obtained by plant breeding technique mutagenesis should fall under laws restricting the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Europe’s highest court said on Wednesday, in a victory for environmental campaigners. The biotech industry had argued that much of mutagenesis, or gene editing, is effectively little different to the mutagenesis that
Triple-stacked soybeans will hit fields sooner than dicamba-tolerant canola, says Monsanto's Robb Fraley.
Crops, News, Oilseeds

Monsanto highlights research pipeline for canola, soybeans

Xtend soybeans with added glufosinate tolerance isn’t far off, but glyphosate- and dicamba-tolerant canola is still five or six years out

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Dicamba-tolerant canola is coming and so is a triple-threat soybean, resistant to glyphosate, dicamba and glufosinate. That’s just some of what’s in Monsanto’s crop and weed-control pipeline, Robb Fraley, the seed and pesticide giant’s executive vice-president and chief technology officer told reporters during a conference call Jan. 4. Fraley sees great things coming from new
Hand over wheat field in early summer evening.
Crops

Changing the discussion on genetic engineering

A genetic engineering researcher who is married to an organic farmer is trying to bridge the gap between consumers and science

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The evolution of genetic engineering will continue, with more diverse options, giving scientists more flexibility to breed crops better for farmers and human nutrition. But farmers and researchers will continue to have to explain the technology to consumers focused on the genetic level, said Pamela Ronald. Ronald, a genetic engineering researcher at the University of
Quinoa, seen growing wild here in Peru at an altitude of 3,800 metres, is an example of one crop that could be better domesticated with modern technology.
Did you know?, News

Planned mutations can increase crop options

The most common food crops benefited from natural mutations and modern technology could aid this process

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There are more than 300,000 plant species in existence, but just three — rice, wheat and corn — account for almost all of the plant matter consumed by humans. In no small part that’s because natural mutations arose making these crops the easiest to harvest. But with gene editing technology like CRISPR, researchers suggest we

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