GMO

‘The core technology of the future’: Time to rethink NZ’s GMO-free status?

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Trees with red trunks and apples that are red right the way through and flower all year round. Should we back or block the genetically changed plants New Zealand scientists are growing? Charlie Dreaver reports for RNZ. At a Plant and Food Research greenhouse in Auckland, one of the sections is filled with $300 apple trees, … Read more

NZ’s pig-headed rejection of GM is putting our agricultural future at risk

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Ignorance of the facts of genetic modification poses an economic risk to New Zealand, writes a professor of plant biology. There is a new agricultural-based green revolution beginning around the world, and it’s a technique you’ve probably heard of before: gene editing. New types of rice, wheat, tomato, maize, soybean and other crops created through the … Read more