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Crop rotations with beans and peas offer more sustainable and nutritious food production

Date：Apr. 14, 2021 Category：Science&Research

Growing more legumes, like beans and lentils, is potentially a more sustainable and nutritious approach to European agriculture, shows a new study in Frontiers ...

Researchers validate new technique for rapidly diagnosing herbicide-resistant weeds

Date：Apr. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

A recent article in the journal Weed Science describes a new rapid 'leaf-disk assay' that uses chlorophyll fluorescence emissions to determine whether a weed is...

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Germains Seed Technology welcomes Kevin Walsh as Head of Commercial, North America

Date：Apr. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

Germains Seed Technology

Germains Seed Technology announced that the company has hired Kevin Walsh as Head of Commercial, North America.

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Origin Agritech and Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group sign collaboration agreement for the development of commercial GMO corn hybrids

Date：Mar. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

Origin Agritech Limited

Origin Agritech Ltd., an agriculture technology company, announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co...

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USA - Adama's Mastercop fungicide receives label approval for additional crops and uses

Date：Mar. 25, 2021 Category：Products

ADAMA announced recently that the EPA has approved changes to the label of Mastercop® Fungicide/Bactericide that were made to help growers better protect their...

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Rob-See-Co announces acquisition of NorthStar Genetics

Date：Mar. 16, 2021 Category：Companies

Rob-See-Co, an independent seed company located in Elkhorn, Neb. acquired NorthStar Genetics, a Minnesota-based seed company.

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How India’s rice production can adapt to climate change challenges

Date：Mar. 12, 2021 Category：Markets

As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land shrinks. A new University of Illinois study investigates how rice production in ...

Origin Agritech utilizes gene editing technology to create new corn traits

Date：Mar. 9, 2021 Category：Companies

Origin Agritech Limited

Origin Agritech Ltd., an agriculture technology company, announced that it has successfully utilized gene editing technology to create new corn traits.

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Rapid new automated genomics screening stamps out crop disease

Date：Mar. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

Researchers at the Earlham Institute (EI) have created a new automated workflow using liquid handling robots to identify the genetic basis to prevent plant path...

Employing genetics to protect durum wheat from stem rust

Date：Mar. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

Although breeders in different parts of the world are incorporating resistance genes effective against the stem rust in their germplasm, many stem rust races co...

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Solinftec and Planet partner to provide real-time agronomic insights

Date：Mar. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

Solinftec

Solinftec announced a global partnership with Planet, operator of history's largest commercial fleet of earth observation satellites, to deliver real-time data ...

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WayBeyond launches Crop Registration, moving tomatoes into next-gen tech

Date：Mar. 4, 2021 Category：Products

Waybeyond has launched a purpose-built mobile Crop Registration app for tomato growers, digitizing a time-consuming manual data process.

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New research looks to combat soybean cyst nematodes through neuroscience

Date：Mar. 3, 2021 Category：Science&Research

A confluence of events led to the newest efforts to combat soybean cyst nematodes, which involve connectomics – a subfield of neuroscience that studies compreh...

Newly discovered gene function could lead to improved and more productive plant varieties

Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Science&Research

A research group has verified that the SUPERMAN gene also determines the number of flowers in leguminous plants.

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Researchers solve riddle of plant immune system

Date：Feb. 17, 2021 Category：Science&Research

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen studied the molecular mechanisms of the plant immune system. They were able to show a connect...

Direct Enterprises joins fight against sudden death syndrome in soybeans with first-ever biological agent, will bring CeraMax to U.S. soybean producers

Date：Feb. 17, 2021 Category：Companies

Direct Enterprises

American soybean growers will now have a tough new EPA-registered seed treatment option for guarding crops from sudden death syndrome (SDS) and improving their ...

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SSRgenotyper: A new tool to digitally genotype simple sequence repeats

Date：Feb. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

SSRgenotyper is a newly developed, free bioinformatic tool that allows researchers to digitally genotype sequenced populations using simple sequence repeats (SS...

Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) releases CoAXium® soft white winter wheat varieties in 2022

Date：Feb. 4, 2021 Category：Companies

Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS)

The first-ever CoAXium® soft white winter wheat varieties are coming to the Pacific Northwest. Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) will have Certified seed available ...

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India - Legal experts decode rules for plant variety protection registration

Date：Nov. 11, 2020 Category：Markets

Legal experts in plant variety protection noted that registering a new plant variety in India, although time-consuming, can be simplified with a clear understan...

Celebrating four decades of collaborative research on groundnut in India

Date：Oct. 29, 2020 Category：Markets

To achieve the full genetic potential and higher profits for smallholder farmers, modern crop improvement programs, strong seed delivery system, better market a...

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