CANADA – Gene-edited wheat trials
Barriers continue to fall for GM wheat production
Source: The Western Producer – 31 May 2024
Researchers at Agriculture Canada in Lethbridge have planted their first greenhouse plots of wheat with genes edited to better receive and use sunlight. What has changed? When it comes to genetic modification, wheat appears to be a special case. Still, wheat remained sacrosanct from genetic modification even as researchers around the world, including Canada, completed the mammoth task of mapping its genome in 2018.
What may have changed is public recognition of another threat: climate change.