Ernährung: Mehr Gentechnik im Essen? Ja, sagt der Cheflobbyist des Chemiekonzerns Bayer: Nur so könne sich die Menschheit im Klimawandel noch ernähren. Der Grünen-Politiker Karl Bär widerspricht.

"Mehr Gentechnik im Essen?"

Debate between Matthias Berninger (Former advisor to Renate Künast, now lobbyist for Bayer (Weird turnaround) and Karl Bär (German Green Party) on genetic engineering of food crops and the proposed changes to EU-regulation of NGT-derived crops.

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs

New Zealand had some of the most restrictive laws when it came to genetically engineered food crops. This move once again demonstrates how the NZ Government makes Science-based decisions.

Take note, European Union!

#PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantScience #Agroculture #Sustainability #PlantBreeding

A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants Obtaining foreign DNA-free crops after genome editing is essential for agricultural applications, because of the current regulatory policies on gene-edited plants in various countries. However, it is ...

📜 A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants

🧑‍🔬 Tianhe Cheng, Meng-Xiang Sun

📔 @mplantpcom.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantTransformation #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs #PlantMethods

Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation The European Commission (EC) proposal for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) of July 2023 specifies that Category 1 NGT (NGT1) plants, which are considered equivalent to conventional plants, that is those...

📜 Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation

🧑‍🔬 @alanhschulman.bsky.social, Karin Metzlaff, et al.

📔 Plant Biotechnology Journal

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #Agriculture #PlantGMOs #PlantNaturalVariation #PlantGMOs

New Genetic Technologies (NGTs) as Mirrored by Mass Media - Topics and Frames of Genetic Editing in German Press - Food Ethics This study examines the portrayal of New Genetic Technologies (NGTs), particularly CRISPR/Cas9, in German mass media from 2012 to 2023 — a period marked by significant advancements in biotechnology an...

📜 New Genetic Technologies (NGTs) as Mirrored by Mass Media - Topics and Frames of Genetic Editing in German Press

🧑‍🔬 @hannoko.bsky.social, David Barkhausen, et al.

📔 Food Ethics

🔗 link.springer.com/10.1007/s410...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #FoodEthics #MediaResearch #Agriculture

New genomic techniques in organic production: Considerations for science-based, effective, and acceptable EU regulation The EU has a goal of 25% organic farmland by 2030, but lower yields in organic farming versus non-organic farming puts strain on sustainable food production. Utilizing new genomic techniques (NGTs) in...

📜 New genomic techniques in organic production: Considerations for science-based, effective, and acceptable EU regulation

🧑‍🔬 Alexandra Molitorisová, Kai Purnhagen, et al.

📔 @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Organic #Agriculture

"... ideas of #OrganicFarming, and that is not good. Of course I received some internal criticism. There was the impression that guy is too provocative for our Institute"

From minute ~19:20 to ~21:30 in the video linked above.

#PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantBreeding

3/3

This is a fantastic documentary on #PlantBiotechnology, genetically engineered #PlantGMOs, & the anti-scientific disinformation campaigns that #Greenpeace has been running against them.
In German, but there are English subtitles.

SWR is German public broadcaster, & I don't see a COI.

#PlantScience

Bayer to slash agrochemical jobs in Germany Low-cost Chinese generic pesticides weigh on the German giant

"Bayer to slash agrochemical jobs in Germany"

Bad development for applied agricultural and crop science in Germany.

cen.acs.org/business/agr...

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs

How to eat an idea – a roadmap for the translation and impact in plant biology Johnathan A Napier; How to eat an idea – a roadmap for the translation and impact in plant biology, Plant Physiology, , kiaf178, https://doi.org/10.1093/pl

📜 How to eat an idea – a roadmap for the translation and impact in plant biology

🧑‍🔬 @johnathan-n.bsky.social

📔 @plantphys.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #TranslationalPlantScience #TransPlant #PlantBiology #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Crops #Agriculture

Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet Many of us reach for foods labelled as ‘organic’, assuming they’ll be free from chemical nasties and hold a higher nutritional value. But is this reputation deserved – and is organic food worth the hi...

"Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet"

It's nice to have such a clear statement directly in the title 👏

Interview with Ian Godwin from Queensland University, Australia for Contact Magazine.

qaafi.uq.edu.au/article/2025...

#PlantScience #OrganicFood #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs

Integrating Arabidopsis and crop species gene discovery for crop improvement Summary. Genome sequence assemblies form a durable and precise framework that supports nearly all areas of biological research, including evolutionary biol

📜 Integrating Arabidopsis and crop species gene discovery for crop improvement

🧑‍🔬 Michael W. Bevan, Klaus F. X. Mayer, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #AppliedPlantScience #Crops #Agriculture #PlantBreeding #PlantGMOs #PlantGenomics

Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops Abstract. The significance of research conducted on Arabidopsis thaliana cannot be overstated. This focus issue showcases how insights from Arabidopsis hav

📜 Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops

🧑‍🔬 @cristobaluauy.bsky.social, @hildenelissen.bsky.social, @johnathan-n.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Agriculture #PlantGMOs #Crops #PlantNGTs #PlantBreeding

Die umstrittene Ära Künast: Eine Bilanz ihrer Zeit als Agrarministerin ➽Renate Künast, eine der bekanntesten Agrarpolitikerinnen der Grünen, wird bei der Bundestagswahl 2025 nicht mehr antreten. ➽ Ein Kommentar

On-point summary (in German) of German Green Party Leader Renate Künast:

"Mit der Wissenschaft steht die kämpferische Grüne nur solange auf gutem Fuß, wie sie die gewünschten Ergebnisse liefert." 🎯

www.bauernzeitung.de/news/agrarpo...

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

Palmer amaranth’s arsenal: Rearrangement of eccDNA provides dual herbicide resistance in Amaranthus palmeri Yu-Hung Hung; Palmer amaranth’s arsenal: Rearrangement of eccDNA provides dual herbicide resistance in Amaranthus palmeri, The Plant Cell, , koaf077, https

📜 Palmer amaranth’s arsenal: Rearrangement of eccDNA provides dual herbicide resistance in Amaranthus palmeri

🧑‍🔬 Yu-Hung Hung

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Glyphosate #HerbicideResistance #Herbicides #PlantGMOs #PlantPhysiology #InvasiveWeeds

It‘s Complicated: Why Are There So Few Commercially Successful Crop Varieties Engineered for Disease Resistance? It is more than 40 years since the era of transgenic plants began and more than 30 years after the cloning of the first plant disease resistance genes. Despite extensive progress in our mechanistic u...

📜 It‘s Complicated: Why Are There So Few Commercially Successful Crop Varieties Engineered for Disease Resistance?

🧑‍🔬 Peter Balint-Kurti, Qingli Liu

📔 Molecular Plant Pathology

🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Agriculture #PlantImmunity

Abschied vom Gen-Label

Gentechnikwende der EU: Abschied vom Gen-Label

Eine Mehrheit der EU-Mitgliedstaaten unterstützt neue Gentechnik. Ein Gespräch mit Pflanzengenetiker Nicolaus von Wirén @leibnizipk.bsky.social in der @faznet.bsky.social.

zeitung.faz.net/fas/wissensc...

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantBreeding

"Cheerios Regulation" pending for 22 years - RÚV.is After more than two decades of waiting, it appears Iceland and Norway are preparing to adopt EU regulations on genetically modified food, which were introduced in 2003. No other regulations have remai...

'"Cheerios Regulation" pending for 22 years'

After more than two decades of waiting, it appears Iceland and Norway are preparing to adopt EU regulations on genetically modified food, which were introduced in 2003.

#PlantGMOs #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #GMOFood

www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say Fruit variety developed in Norwich remains fresh for up to 12 hours after being peeled

"Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say"

by Hannah Devlin for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #Banana

Poland seeks to break EU deadlock on GMO deregulation After 18 months, governments have yet to agree on when a new class of genetically modified crops can be treated as equivalent to conventional strains, and whether producers should be granted monopoly ...

Poland seeks to break EU deadlock on GMO deregulation

"After 18 months, governments have yet to agree on when a new class of GMO crops can be treated as equivalent to conventional strains, and whether producers should be granted monopoly rights through patents."

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

A great example of how #CRISPR and #NGTs can be useful in #Agriculture.

Repairing deleterious mutations that accumulated during #Tomato domestication. 👌

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs

Graph showing the increase in mlo barley varieties grown in central Europe from 1980 to 1990. Original figure legend: Fig. 4. Area (in ha) cultivated with five Mlo powdery mildew resistant spring barley varieties and as percentage of the total spring barley area in the following European countries (from year) : Austria (1981) ; Belgium (1980) ; West Germany (1985) ; Great Britain (1982) ; The Netherlands (1980) ; Denmark (1989) ; and Italy (1990). From 'Discovery, characterization and exploitation of Mlo powdery mildew resistance in barley' by I. Helms Jørgensen, 1992.

In the following years, natural 𝘮𝘭𝘰 alleles were also identified in wild barley accessions, & such mutants (natural & induced) are now widely used in agriculture. Ironically, would 𝘮𝘭𝘰 mutations be created via #CRISPR today, the plant would be banned as #GMO in many countries. #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

"The history of GM crops in Italy"

Science & Society article in EMBO Reports by Roberto Defez, @vittoriab.bsky.social, and colleagues

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Agriculture

How the last field trial with gene-edited plants ended in Italy earlier this year:
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#PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs #Activists

How the last field trial with gene-edited plants ended in Italy earlier this year:
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#PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs #Activists

Italy tests first gene-edited vines for winemaking - Nature Biotechnology Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines began in northern Italy on 30 September 2024. Developed by EdiVite, a spinoff from the University of Verona, these Chardonnay vines have undergone gene ...

"Italy tests first gene-edited vines for winemaking"

by @annameldolesi.bsky.social via @naturebiotech.bsky.social.

Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines began in northern Italy on 30 September 2024.

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Winemaking

Let's hope "activists" don't find them.

Releasing a sugar brake generates sweeter tomato without yield penalty - Nature A study identifies two genes that act as brakes controlling the sugar content of tomatoes and demonstrates their manipulation to generate sweeter tomatoes without affecting the fruit size and yield.

📜 Releasing a sugar brake generates sweeter tomato without yield penalty

🧑‍🔬 Jinzhe Zhang, Hongjun Lyu, Jie Chen, Sanwen Huang, et al.

📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantBreeding #Tomato

"The Great Organic-Food Fraud" from The New Yorker

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

#PlantGMOs #Organic #OrganicFood

The Purple Tomato Story; From Laboratory Bench to the Consumer A world apart from academic research, the path from developing a polyphenol-rich crop to a product available to consumers is not one taken by many research scientists. Here we review the steps taken t...

"The Purple Tomato Story; From Laboratory Bench to the Consumer"

Cathie Martin and Eugenio Butelli

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PurpleTomato #PlantBreeding

"(...) two biotechnologists will eat what has the potential to become one of the more consequential mouthfuls of banana in the history of the planet’s most popular fruit.
Whoever bites first will have the first taste of the first GM banana approved for commercial production in the world."
#PlantGMOs