One leaf is almost all yellow, a sickly sign of bacterial blight - a disease that has afflicted Malaysian rice fields for ...

HAIKOU: Researchers in Hainan province have developed a novel rice variety packed with the same health-boosting compounds ...

Golden Rice is the first genetically modified rice variety for improved nutrition developed by PhilRice with the International Rice Research Institute, which contains additional levels of beta ...

Golden rice (GR), a genetically modified (GM) crop, is a public-sector product deliberately designed to add vitamin A to diets to deal with the deficiency. Its inventors, Ingo Potrykus of the ...

After years of campaigning by Greenpeace, a court in the Philippines has revoked the permit to grow “Golden Rice”, a genetically modified crop designed to combat malnutrition. The move is a ...

A court in the Philippines has sided with green campaigners and banned a genetically modified (GMO ... Three years ago, the rice-dependent nation became the first to approve commercial cultivation of ...

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture has a vision: to become the first country to allow the commercial production of golden rice, a 20-year-old genetically modified crop that could prevent ...

But advocates of genetically modified (GM) foods say the decision could be disastrous for poor Filipinos. In April environmentalists convinced a court in the Philippines to ban golden rice ...

Farmers in the Philippines may be able to continue growing golden rice genetically modified to combat malnutrition, despite a court decision revoking the permit for planting it. The Philippines ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to "severe" health and ...

A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to "severe" health and environmental safety ...