Sterile seed technology has been developed to prevent the growth of seeds that are produced by a crop. Despite rumors and false reports indicating otherwise, none of Monsanto's (MON +0.00%) ...

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 ...

Brazil’s agribusiness lobby is using the cover provided by the Rousseff administration scandal as cover to rapidly push a Terminator seed amendment through Congress. Terminator seeds are controlled ...

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 ...

In the polarised and fractious debate over the use of genetic modification in agriculture, few issues have raised hackles as much as the proposed use of genetic use restriction techniques (GURT), more ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A genetic plant sterilization technology – known as the Terminator gene – that is heralded by scientists as a possible solution to the ecological problem of gene drift is being ...

A technology called a ‘terminator’ was never going to curry much favour with the public. But even Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology giant in St Louis, Missouri, was surprised by the furore that ...

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 ...

"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 ...