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¿Puede el mejoramiento genético salvar al chocolate de todo el planeta?

January 5, 2018 / / 0 Comments

¿Sabías que las plantas de Cacao (Theobroma cacao) en todo el mundo están siendo afectadas por virus y hongos,  al punto de acabar con cultivos enteros? ¡La técnica CRISPR podría hacerlas resistente ante estas infecciones, salvando a los cultivos de cacao, al chocolate, y a los más de 50 millones de empleos que genera su industria!

Artículo por Laura Geggel, para Livescience

Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

Un fruto de Cacao en Ecuador, infectado con el hongo Moniliophthora roreri. Crédito: Shutterstock

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Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

January 5, 2018 / / 0 Comments

Did you know that cocoa plants (Theobroma cacao) around the world are being affected by viruses and fungi, to the point of killing whole crops? The CRISPR technique could make them resistant to these infections, saving cocoa crops, chocolate, and more than 50 million jobs generated by their industry!

Article by Laura Geggel, Livescience

Can Gene Editing Save the World’s Chocolate?

A cocoa pod in Ecuador infected with the fungus Moniliophthora roreri, which causes frosty pod. Credit: Shutterstock

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Vitamin A rice now a reality

December 23, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Yes!
Finally Golden Rice will released. This version has the same yield than the regular variety used in the experiment and has the same resistance to plant diseases.

Vitamin A rice now a reality

Field trial shows high promise, people may get it by 2018

Field trial shows high promise, people may get it by 2018.

Bangladesh keeps leading the way, and proving the anti GMO movement wrong. Expect a lot of lies about GR as well, and insults and threats to their govt, and to Matia Chowdhury, the minister of agriculture.
Although this a publication of 2016, we hope that the rice will be release at the beginning of next year!

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Saving Cavendish: Team grows world-first Panama disease-resistant bananas

December 18, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Exciting news.
I hope that this can be applied to Gros Michel bananas as well.

Saving Cavendish: Team grows world-first Panama disease-resistant bananas

The RGA2-3 modified Cavendish in the Northern Territory field trial. Credit: QUT.

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¡Más variedades de manzanas!

December 17, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Recuerdo que algunas de las manzanas que tuvimos en la estación experimental de Cornell el año pasado tuvieron problemas similares: eran muy sensibles a los golpes y moretones.

Noten que, aparte de las “Arctic Apples”, todas las demás manzanas mencionadas en este artículo han sido obtenidas por métodos de cruce tradicional.

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This autumn’s apples mark the beginning of the designer fruit era

Una manzana de la variedad Niedwetzkyana.

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More apple varieties!

December 17, 2017 / / 0 Comments

I remember that some of the apples we got at the Cornell experimental station last year had similar problems: They were very sensitive to bruises.

Notice that other than the Arctic Apples all the other apples here have been obtained by traditional breeding.

This autumn’s apples mark the beginning of the designer fruit era

A Niedwetzkyana apple.

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La superstición que se opone a los cultivos transgénicos es mortal para el hambre del mundo

December 10, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Artículo por Chris Bullivant

The superstition that opposes GM crops is deadly for the world’s hungry

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The superstition that opposes GM crops is deadly for the world’s hungry

December 10, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Article by Chris Bullivant

The superstition that opposes GM crops is deadly for the world’s hungry

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La fiebre de las etiquetas a los No-OGM alcanzó su punto máximo?

December 10, 2017 / / 0 Comments

“No hay lechuga No-OGM” dijo Nucci “Eso nos hizo pensar: Por qué estamos haciendo esto? Estamos perpetuando el miedo de que hay algo malo con los OGMs. No nos sentimos bien haciendo esto, así que decidimos eliminar las etiquetas” – Artículo por Diana Bradley, para PR Week.

Has the Non-GMO label fever peaked? Major vegetable packing firm removes ‘fear perpetuating’ label

https://geneticliteracyproject.org

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Has the Non-GMO label fever peaked?

December 10, 2017 / / 0 Comments

“There is no GMO lettuce,” said Nucci. “It made us go: Why are we doing this? We are perpetuating a fear that something is wrong with GMOs. We didn’t feel right doing that, so we chose to take that label off.” – Diana Bradley, PR Week.

Has the Non-GMO label fever peaked? Major vegetable packing firm removes ‘fear perpetuating’ label

https://geneticliteracyproject.org

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