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Legislation to unlock new technologies to boost food production and support farmers to grow more productive crops will return to Parliament today – paving ...

The virus was no longer able to grow inside cells with the genetic change. Precision breeding is a powerful and important tool to help us tackle the challenges of biodiversity and climate change, while feeding a still growing global population. Gene editing allows precision breeding to make the same type of genetic changes in a far more efficient and precise way, significantly reducing the time needed to create new varieties. In some cases, variants of the virus can infect people and cause serious illness. The information collected will be published on a public register on GOV.UK. That is why we are taking a step-by-step approach, enabling use of precision breeding technologies with plants first followed by animals later.