Engineered Crops Now Signal Stress to Farmers: How Sentinel Soybeans Warn of Fungal Disease Weeks Before Symptoms Appear
For as long as farmers have grown crops, spotting trouble has meant walking the rows and looking. A new generation of engineered plants is trying to change that by making the crop itself raise the alarm. Using genetic engineering, companies are building plants that produce a light signal, invisible to the human eye, when they … Read more