The growth of biotech crops in the U.S. appears to have hit a plateau, but farmers are accelerating plantings in Asia, although it still remains a much smaller market, according to an industry report ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root across the globe, accounting for about $44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to ...

The widening adoption of genetically engineered crops by farmers around the world is reducing global pesticide use, increasing agricultural yields and bringing unprecedented prosperity and food ...

A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution that will boost crop production, shrink agriculture's environmental footprint, help us weather future climate change, and ...

A centre of excellence for crop biotechnology is set be established to develop and deploy disease-resistant seeds under a new five-year project, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal ...

Lynn Dahleen's work in the smallest of places, the gene structure of plants, could pay off in a big way. For four years, she has toiled in her Fargo laboratory, inserting foreign genes into barley.

Last year, more than 10 million acres of Nebraska's 18.5 million acres of principal cropland was planted to biotech crop varieties. The increasing number of biotech acres in Nebraska is reflective of ...

The World Trade Organization ruled yesterday that a six-year European ban on genetically engineered crops violates international trade rules, according to U.S. sources familiar with the ruling. The ...

Good judgement and common sense prevailed when North Dakota lawmakers recently defeated a bill that would have required biotech seed developers to bear much of the liability relating to the planting ...

REUTERS - The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8 ...