Laboratory of Natural Products and Metabolic Engineering, Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, People’s Republic of China. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, People’s Republic of China. Institute of Ornamental Plants Research, Southwest...

This article presents the experiences of a woman in academic plant pathology from the 1950s to today. Topics include the social climate for women in science, personal and professional developments and research discoveries, public policy issues in agriculture and biotechnology affecting plant pathology, and projections for the future of plant pathology.

The views expressed in this position paper are those of the members of the International Policy Council on Agriculture, Food and Trade. Preface The idea behind the following IPC position paper was initially discussed at the time of the 1st Annual IPC Agri-Forum and the IPC's 20th plenary meeting in October 1997 in the Hague. A draft paper was then developed by a task force comprised of IPC memb...

Biotechnology has been practiced by man since plants and animals were first domesticated thousands of years ago. Biotechnology in its most simplistic sense is the genetic modification of living organisms. Hence, all crop varieties grown today, including soybean, have had their DNA manipulated—the essence of biotechnology. More recently, biotechnology implies a deliberate manipulation of the DNA...

Indian Biotech opponents have attributed the increase of suicides to the monopolization of GM seeds, centering on patent control, application of terminator technology, marketing strategy, and increased production costs. The contentions of the biotech opponents, however, have been criticized for a lack of transparency in their modus operandi i.e. the use of methodology in their argumentation. Th...

EDITORIAL article Front. Plant Sci., 18 August 2023Sec. Biotechnology Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1258701

Plants are one of the most important resources of human foods and medicines. Rapidly increasing knowledge on nutrition, medicine, and plant biotechnology has dramatically changed the concepts about food, health and agriculture, and brought in a revolution on them. Nutritional therapy and phytotherapy have emerged as new concepts and healing systems have quickly and widely spread in recent years...

One of the stellar achievements of twentieth century plant biology was the genetic transformation of somatic cells enabling the regeneration of whole plants that were stably transformed and capable of transmitting the inserted genetic material to subsequent generations. This achievement grew out of three independent lines of research initiated early in the twentieth century: plant tissue cultur...