Precision breeding bill 'a major boost' for crop innovation
Crop breeders have welcomed the government's plan to bring forward a new bill set to exempt improved crop varieties from restrictive GMO rules.
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Crop breeders have welcomed the government's plan to bring forward a new bill set to exempt improved crop varieties from restrictive GMO rules.
CROP breeders and farmer leaders have welcomed a UK Government commitment to new legislation that will allow gene editing of food plants and…
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The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) welcomed the announcement that the UK Government will bring forward new primary legislation, The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill. This Bill will ease the application of particular precision breeding techniques that will not need to go through the restrictive rules for genetically modified crops since the resulting plants could have been a product of natural selection or conventional breeding.
THE majority of bills announced in Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech apply to Scotland – with issues ranging from “Brexit Freedoms” to the media.