Food & agriculture · November 2025

England's gene-edited crop pathway

Gene-edited plants leave the GMO rulebook in England.

The Precision Breeding Regulations 2025 put England's 2023 Act into force, so gene-edited plants can be registered like conventionally bred varieties.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

CRISPR-edited food 2021

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Cereal yield Latest: 4.21 t/ha (2024) Source: Our World in Data

Cost to sequence a human genome Latest: 525 $ (2022) Source: Our World in Data