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Beet armyworm / Small mottled willow (Spodoptera exigua) moth on Cotton (Gossypium sp) flower bud.

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Destructive pest moth stripped of sex appeal by gene editing

Female beet armyworms with a deleted gene don’t produce sex pheromones, which could be exploited as a way to control numbers of this agricultural pest

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CX6R9A Green soy plant leaves in the cultivate field, against the sun

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The way that leaves flutter can reveal when plants need more water

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Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown holds up an Impossible Burger 2.0, the new and improved version of the company's plant-based vegan burger that tastes like real beef, at a press event during CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7, 2019. - The updated version can be cooked on a grill and has a better flavor and lowered cholesterol, fat and calories than the original.

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Impossible Foods in talks with UK farmers to swap livestock for trees

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UK gene-edited food plans must not harm animal welfare, say ethicists

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Wild flowers growing on a field verge in Andalucia, Spain.

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: How you can 'do your bit' for wildlife

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FEATURE ONLY The grow hall at Nordic Harvest close to Copenhagen, where a 14 storey high system grows salad leaves in water under UV lights.

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Futuristic farm may use 250 times less water than normal

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Cattle vaccine to be trialled in England in fight against bovine TB

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bioreactor

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We can make food from air and electricity to save land for wildlife

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Cattle that spend more time around humans have smaller brains

Cattle that spend more time around humans have smaller brains

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Goats were first domesticated in western Iran 10,000 years ago

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Goats were first domesticated in western Iran 10,000 years ago

The earliest genetic evidence for goat domestication comes fossils of goats that lived in the Zagros Mountains of Iran about 10,000 years ago

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George Washington Carver

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Molecular farming

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Plants that suck metals from the soil can be farmed to make our tech

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Implanting beef cattle embryos in dairy cows makes them more lucrative

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