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(THE CONVERSATION) As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants ...

James W. Satterlee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (THE CONVERSATION) As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with ...

For thousands of years, plant breeders have taken advantage of these variations to create high-yielding crop varieties. In 1983, the first genetically modified organisms , or GMOs, appeared in ...