Gene-editing approved for use on crops and livestock in England

The bill allows techniques such as genome editing, for example, which can shorten the eight to 20-year conventional development of an improved crop to less than four years.

The bill allows techniques such as genome editing, for example, which can shorten the eight to 20-year conventional development of an improved crop to less than four years.

Farmers in England are looking forward to more polled cattle, better crops, and pigs resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, after the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 was passed in Parliament.

It allows techniques such as genome editing, for example, which can shorten the eight to 20-year conventional development of an improved crop to less than four years.