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• Solynta Expands Its Executive Team

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

  Solynta

  Solynta is a leading potato breeding and biotechnology company, announced that it has appointed Charles Miller as its Commercial Director.

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• Top 5 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

  Agriculture is one of the most essential sectors of any economy. In this age of information, coupled with the dire need to preserve our environment, it is absol...

• Insecticides (India) launches product to control bugs in NE tea estates

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Products

  Insecticides (India) Limited

  Insecticides (India) Limited has launched a product in India for tea gardens in the Northeast to effectively control bugs which have considerably affected crop ...

• Kleffmann Group: nearly four times as much winter oilseed rape lost than last autumn

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Kleffmann Group

  Kleffmann Group has identified from its GB Winter Oilseed rape panel this year, that there has been significant lossofthis year’s planted area, with large regi...

• EFC Systems Names Jeremy Wilson, Sr. VP, Field Data Solutions

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

  EFC Systems

  EFC Systems, Inc. (“EFC Systems”) announced that Jeremy Wilson has joined EFC Systems as Senior Vice President, Field Data Solutions effective February 1st. I...

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• DNA Plant Science Introduces Manvert to South Africa

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

  DNA Plant Science announced that Manvert plant nutrition products are now available in South Africa. Manvert is a leader in nutritional supplements for the agri...

• Canada: New protection products coming from Syngenta

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Products

  Registration of a new active ingredient is making it possible for Syngenta Canada to bring several fungicide products to the market with promise of improved dis...

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• Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops.

• Harvesting wild genes gives crops renewed resistance to disease

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A global alliance of researchers has pioneered a new method to rapidly recruit disease-resistance genes from wild plants for transfer into domestic crops. The t...

• Is China Really Buying 10 MMT of U.S. Soybeans?

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  During President Trump’s talk with Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office during the latest round of trade talks, a simple handshake caused quite the stir. As ...

• Russia may restrict Brazil soybean imports

  Date：Feb. 5, 2019 Category：Markets

  Russia's government has told Brazil it may restrict soybean imports from the country temporarily if producers do not reduce their volume of pesticide use, espec...

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• Homology-directed repair using transient CRISPR/Cpf1-geminiviral replicon in tomato

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Genome editing via homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway in somatic plant cells was very inefficient compared to illegitimate repair by non-homologous end join...

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• Plant and animal breeding innovations to be discussed at the California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting on February 5th

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will discuss innovations in plant and animal breeding, including gene editing technology, at its upcoming mee...

• Cibus launches new seed brand Falco, bringing change and choice to North American canola growers

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  Cibus

  January 31, Cibus, a leader in advanced plant-breeding technologies, announced the launch of its new seed brand, Falco™, offering North American canola growers...

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• Update on China-U.S. trade talks, confusion over soybean purchases

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  After two days of high-stakes trade talks ended last Thursday in Washington, China apparently surprised U.S. officials by announcing it would buy another 5 mill...

• ADM, Cargill, others launch Plant Based Products Council

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

  Archer Daniels Midland Co., Cargill, Tate & Lyle and Ingredion are among the founding members of the Plant Based Products Council, which will seek more sustaina...

• Judge will allow controversial evidence in glyphosate lawsuit

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG's glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial...

• 2019 meetings of the Weed Science Society of America focus on new developments in global research, education and extension

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) released further details on its 59th annual meeting, which is scheduled for February 11-14 in New Orleans, Louisiana....

• Germains Seed Technology celebrates grand opening of new Gilroy facilities

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  Germains Seed Technology

  On January 22, 2019, Germains Seed Technology held a Grand Opening to celebrate the completion of their new organic automated processing facility and Research a...

• John Deere to introduce new ag products and technology at Nat'l farm machinery show

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  John Deere

  John Deere is set to introduce new products and ag technology at this year's National Farm Machinery Show, Feb. 13 - 16, in Louisville, Ky.

• Sumitomo Chemical Appoints New Chairman and New President

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

  Sumitomo Chemical recently announced that, at a Board of Directors meeting held on February 1, 2019, it has appointed a new Chairman of the Board and a new Repr...

• Mary Scott joins American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) as Administrator/Domestic & International Programs

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  ASTA recently announced the hiring of Ms. Mary Scott as Administrator of Domestic and International Programs. In her new role, Mary will provide critical assist...

• Rantizo Wins AgTech Innovation Competition in Des Moines

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  Rantizo

  Rantizo is an Iowa based agricultural tech startup creating a targeted drone spraying platform that utilizes electrostatic technology to safely and precisely de...

• Top 10 products received AgroPages Awards for their great market potential in China

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  In the last 2 months, products shortlisted for AgroPages Awards were voted by the public, and reviewed by the judging panel to select biopesticides, biostimulan...

• New CRISPR database to catalyze collaborations

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  Recently developed gene editing tools like CRISPR/Cas enable plant scientists to figure out the functions of myriad plant genes. While these studies could event...

• U.S. approval for Vive Crop Protection's AZteroid FC 3.3 fungicide

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  Vive Crop Protection

  Vive Crop Protection announced its AZteroid FC 3.3 fungicide recently received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• Sales of Sumitomo Chemical’s Health & Crop Sciences segment up 2% for the nine months FY 2018

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

  The sales revenue of Sumitomo Chemical’s Health & Crop Sciences segment fell by ¥3.5 billion for the first nine months ended December 31, 2018 compared with t...

• Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  Researchers at the University of Tübingen have discovered a natural substance that could compete with the controversial herbicide glyphosate: a newly discovere...

• Agricultural Adjuvants Market to reach USD 4.04 billion by 2023

  Date：Feb. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  According to the report "Agricultural Adjuvants Market by Function (Activator and Utility), Chemical Group (Alkoxylates, Organosilicones, and Sulfonates), Appli...

• Biopesticide AgTech building toward RNAissance with TechAccel cultivation

  Date：Feb. 1, 2019 Category：Companies

  TechAccel

  KC-based TechAccel endeavors to guide startups through “the valley of death” stage that emerges after ideation, but before traction, said Brad Fabbri, noting ...