How GMOs can eliminate world hunger (A conversation with Marc Van Montagu)
If there were a Nobel Prize in biology, Marc Van Montagu would certainly have won it. Almost half a century ago, the Belgian molecular biologist pioneered the use of GMO technology or genetic modification. Together with his colleague Jeff Schell at the University of Ghent, Van Montagu discovered that the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which was known to produce tumor growth in plants, has the ability to… Lees verder »How GMOs can eliminate world hunger (A conversation with Marc Van Montagu)