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Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Plants genetically engineered to improve photosynthesis, specifically the photorespiratory bypass, are visibly larger than normal plants in this greenhouse field trial.
Image Credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE
Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) is engineering plants to more efficiently turn the sun’s energy into food to sustainably increase worldwide food productivity. The international research project is funded by a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Learn more at ripe.illinois.edu.
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.
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Researchers at Kanazawa University and the University of Tokyo report in Nature Communications the visualization of the dynamics of ‘molecular scissors’ — the main mechanism of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic-engineering technique. This study provides unprecedented details about the functional dynamics o...
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Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
For Wired Uk on investing in development in mouse genome reserch and how is useful for humans to test drugs on mice.
A young boy happily eats his organic rice for lunch at Sitio Canaan, Barangay Crossing, Magallon, Negros Occidental.
© Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.
During photosynthesis in C3 crops, such as wheat and rice, the enzyme Rubisco will react with oxygen (instead of carbon dioxide) creating a plant-toxic compound that must be recycled, wasting energy. In this greenhouse experiment, six-week-old plants engineered to more efficiently process the toxic compound (front right) are visibly larger than an unmodified plant (front left).
Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) is engineering plants to more efficiently turn the sun’s energy into food to sustainably increase worldwide food productivity. The international research project is funded by a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Photo credit: Paul South/University of Illinois
Kevin Cordoba, a second year higschool student eats organic rice for lunch before he goes to school. His family explains how tasteful organic rice are over commercially available ones.
© Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Greenpeace activists dressed as "GMO monster crops" are blocked by security from entering the Department of Agriculture. Greenpeace together with other concerned organizations are demanding the Philippine government to "stop GMO invasion" by cancelling all commercialization and field trials of genetically-modified organisms in the country.
The Department of Agriculture, responsible for regulating GMOs, has never denied approval for any GMO crop. Greenpeace contends that GMOs are dangerous to human health, biodiversity and farmers’ livelihoods.
© Luis Liwanag/Greenpeace
Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan
These rice seedlings are part of a transformation pipeline to test photosynthetic improvements that could increase the yields staple food crops.
Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois
The techniques of modern genetics have made possible the direct manipulation of the genetic makeup of organisms. In agriculture, genetic engineering allows simple genetic traits to be transferred to crop plants from wild relatives, other distantly related plants, or virtually any other organism.
Recombinant DNA technology thus has brought a new precision to the process of crop development, which traditionally selects desired traits through crosses between crops and their wild relatives (a laborious and relatively imprecise method).
Genetic modification can be used in many ways to control a variety of traits of plants, and the consequences of one manipulation may be completely different from another based on the traits modified.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/22983
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/22983
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