BioResireFeb 10
🌱 GM crops use biotechnology 🧬 to improve yield, nutrition, and pest resistance, supporting sustainable agriculture and global food security 🌍.
#GMCrops #Biotechnology #GeneticEngineering #AgriculturalBiotech #FoodSecurity #BtCotton #GoldenRice #LifeScienceStudents #BiologyConcepts #BioResire
PLOS BiologyMay 30, 2025
Bt proteins such as Vip3Aa are commonly used in #GMcrops to control lepidopteran #pests, but Vip3Aa resistance has been observed. This study identifies a gene in the crop pest #Helicoverpa armigera #CottonBollworm whose disruption confers resistance to Vip3Aa @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4kBtD89
Richard HullSep 27, 2024
Shocking - but not surprising - example of 'regulatory capture' where industry (pesticides and GM crops in this case) does whatever it takes to co-opt the supposed regulating agencies - in this case US Dept of Agriculture and USAid (to capture African markets)
#pesticide
#GMcrops
#Seeds
#Monsanto
#Syngenta
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics
Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest

The Guardian
Jonathan EmmesediMay 26, 2024

What do you think?

‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice | GM | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/greenpeace-blocks-planting-of-lifesaving-golden-rice-philippines

#GoldenRice #GMCrops #GMFood #Greenpeace #Philippines

‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn

The Guardian
Linking DotMar 26, 2024
Mexico rejects US GM corn with its herbicide residues.
“The US is, in effect, asking Mexico to trust the completeness and accuracy of the initial GE corn safety assessments carried out 15 to 30 years ago by the companies working to bring GE corn events to market.…The Mexican government is both wise and on solid ground in refusing to allow its people to participate in the experiment that the US government is seeking to impose on Mexico.”
#glyphosate #GMcrops #roundup
https://www.commondreams.org/news/genetically-modified-corn
Experts Warn of Toxins in GM Corn Amid US-Mexico Trade Dispute

"The Mexican government is both wise and on solid ground in refusing to allow its people to participate in the experiment that the U.S. government is seeking to impose."

Common Dreams
The Global Plant CouncilNov 1, 2023

Natural GM crops: grasses take evolutionary shortcut by borrowing genes from their neighbours

Grasses transfer genes from their neighbours in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed.

https://globalplantcouncil.org/natural-gm-crops-grasses-take-evolutionary-shortcut-by-borrowing-genes-from-their-neighbours/ via The University of Sheffield #PlantScience #PlantScience #biotechnology #science #grass #GMcrops #crops #PlantBiotechnology

Natural GM crops: grasses take evolutionary shortcut by borrowing genes from their neighbours - The Global Plant Council

Grasses transfer genes from their neighbours in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed. 

The Global Plant Council
Canadian Association For Food StudiesAug 21, 2023

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Wesley Tourangeau

#GMcrops #GMO #GeneticallyModified #Biotechnology #Agriculture #Canada #CanAg #PowerRelations #Discourse

#OpenScholarship from Canadian Food Studies (CFS)

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208/180

View of GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Andrew ThompsonJul 26, 2023

New book about #Roundup lawsuits gives behind-the-scenes look

Dr Chadi Nabhan is the author of the new book, “Toxic Exposure: The True Story Behind the #Monsanto Trials and the Search for Justice,” published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

#Bayer #glyphosate #herbicide #carcinogen #gmo #gmCrops #biotech #bigPharma #bigAg #chemicalAg #toxic #food
https://www.legalexaminer.com/environment/roundup-lawsuits/new-book-about-roundup-lawsuits-gives-behind-the-scenes-look/

New Book About Roundup Lawsuits Gives Behind-The-Scenes Look

Dr. Chadi Nabhan is a hematologist and medical oncologist who has worn many hats. He has served as chief of Hematology and Cancer Institute director at the Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois and an asso

The Legal Examiner
eLifeApr 17, 2023
Toxins from the pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis are used to kill crop pests, but evidence in fruit flies suggests they can also target the intestines of non-target animal species. #GMCrops #GeneticModification #Genetics #Agriculture
https://elifesciences.org/articles/80179?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
Bacillus thuringiensis toxins divert progenitor cells toward enteroendocrine fate by decreasing cell adhesion with intestinal stem cells in Drosophila

Bacillus thuringiensis crystalline toxins used as microbial pesticides disrupt the homeostasis of intestinal cells of the non-target Drosophila melanogaster.

eLife
Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersMar 1, 2021

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Was it the #GeneticallyModified #SweetPotato designed to grow in deficient #soil causing VitaminA deficiency and #blindness in children - or another one?

Feel free to DM

#Monsanto #FeedingTheWorld #bayer #GMCrops