GE wheat field trial planned
Professor Nigel Halford and researcher Sarah Raffan of Rothamsted Research.
Scientists at Rothamsted Research are preparing an application to run UK field trials of a new gene-edited (GE) wheat as early as this autumn.
If the UK Government grants permission, it would be the first such trial of GE wheat to be carried out anywhere in Europe where GE is subject to the same ban as genetic modification (GM).
The post-Brexit application for field trials will coincide with the current UK Government consultation on gene editing and GM which was announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference in January.