The fate of cottonseed rests in your hands. More than eight years ago, we wrote about a project at Texas A&M University led by Dr. Keerti Rathore to create edible cottonseed. If determined to be safe for food and the…
Tag: RNAi
Dietary delivery of small RNAs: Has the worm turned?
Written by Kendal Hirschi "You are what you eat," as the saying goes, which serves for some as a guide to healthy eating. Even the field of nutrition appreciates the literal nature of this adage: as our bodies renew aging…
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A Misplaced Concern about an Apple
Written by Steve Savage As a consumer and as an agricultural scientist, I’m looking forward to the introduction of the Arctic® apple. It is possibly nearing approval by regulators in the US and Canada which could mean that supplies might…
So Much for My Favorite 2012 Paper
Written by Kevin Folta Republished from Illumination. Ask any scientist what papers truly intrigued or inspired them. All of us have a few. One of my favorites hit Cell Research back in summer of 2012. In this paper, Zhang et al…
Why novel dsRNA molecules in GM food are of little to no concern
Written by Alexander Huszagh Recently, concerns were raised about the potential risks of dietary double stranded RNA (dsRNA) and microRNA (miRNA) molecules silencing human genes, after research by Zhang et al. showed the presence of plant miRNA in human blood plasma,…
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GMO Wheat and shouting “fire” in a crowded theater
A report from an activist group called Safe Food Foundation (SFF) came out last fall that caused a minor stir upon it's first release. They claimed that they had unearthed an issue with GMO wheat being studied by the Australian…
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Brazilian virus-resistant beans
Written by Lúcia de Souza A homemade, high potential benefit-driven development from the public sector Beans are an important food item, mostly in the developing world. Unfortunately, the golden mosaic virus infection is a serious constraint causing severe grain losses…
Cotton like Candy
Or Cottonseed you can Eat thanks to Genetic Engineering. A few years ago, I read about a research group that had used genetic engineering to remove a poisonous compound from cotton seed. Now, it seems, they are one step closer…