Herbicides are not only harmful to the environment, they're also costly and time-consuming to apply. A new device could drastically reduce the need for them, however, while also providing crops with a ...

If death by hammer blow is the best way to kill weed seed at harvest, then make way for the Seed Terminator (ST). The ST grabs chaff leaving a combine’s cleaning shoe and pulverizes the weed seed ...

"Genetic Use Restriction Technology," or GURT, is the original name given to the broader technology that is best known for its subset of "Terminator" qualities. U.S. patents for GURTs were awarded to ...

If death by hammer blow is the way to kill weed seed at harvest, then make way for the Seed Terminator (ST). The ST grabs chaff leaving a combine’s cleaning shoe and pulverizes weed seed through ...

Aside from the myth that scientists create GMO tomatoes with syringes, possibly the most prevalent of the “alternative facts” used in opposition to crop biotechnology involves so-called “terminator ...

Groups fighting for the rights of peasant communities are stepping up pressure on governments to ban the use of genetically modified ''suicide seeds'' at UN-sponsored talks on biodiversity in Spain ...

In early October, the agricultural–chemical giant Monsanto (St Louis, MO) announced that it would drop plans to market "terminator" seeds that produce infertile crops. Although the technology could ...