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Innovative projects will receive funding to develop technologies to predict strawberry yield, increase vineyard productivity and optimise harvesting schedules.
First potential applications could be PRRS resistant pigs, bred using gene edited traits developed by scientists at the University of Missouri and the Roslin Institute.
The pig sector has backed calls for the government to speed up plans to allow the commercial use of precision breeding techniques in farmed animals.
Plant breeders have welcomed proposals by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for a new streamlined, science-led approach to regulating gene-edited crops in
MSP Finlay Carson has said the SNP-Green Government's approach towards gene editing could harm Scotland's food security.