What To Know About the World’s First Seedless Blackberry

Get an update on CRISPR along with what plant traits were altered for improvement, and what types of entities are currently developing.

Studies reveal consumers’ views on gene-edited fruits.

Studies have shown ‘weeping’ architecture — branches growing downward — helps allocate more resources and other nutrients toward reproductive growth.

The process is more complex in fruit crops than in others, but new strategies look promising.

Scientists have a shot at eradicating a deadly threat to vineyards, just as the pest’s resistance to insecticide has been growing.

Minus exogenesis DNA elements, those crops are considered fundamentally different from classic GMOs.

North Carolina-based company focuses on seedlessness, plant architecture, everbearing, and thornlessness.

Argonaute proteins prove to be the next generation in fighting bacterial disease.

Smaller size allows the use of disarmed plant virus-based delivery vehicles of much limited cargo capacity.

The old auto manufacturer slogan needs to be taken out and dusted off by the fruit-growing industry once again.

The ‘shock wave’ arrival of prime editors could someday be of big benefit in pome crops.

Gene editing, once thought impossible in apples, now offers intriguing possibilities.

Vonnie Estes, the new VP of Technology for the Produce Marketing Association, provides insight on what the gene-editing tool means to farming and beyond.

Recent European Union court ruling a blow for plant biotech progress overseas. So what now here?

Novel method for gene editing catches the eye of agriculture innovation investors.

It seems that if we listened to the anti-GMO arguments, we would freeze plant breeding and innovation in time and stifle advancements in productivity and other positive traits.

Other companies also have secured licenses, but few have announced plans to use the gene editing technology on vegetables.

Whether it is human genetics or genetics applied to plants, knowledge is growing at a dizzying pace.

While nature always finds a way to adapt, science continues to find other ways to cope.