Science&Research

• GRDC Grains Research and Development: Fungicide resistance a growing issue in barley disease

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Barley growers are advised to monitor their crops for early signs of fungicide resistance, with research uncovering new developments in the resistance to fungic...

• AI to speed up seed germination testing process

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers have developed a new tool to carry out one of agriculture’s more challenging tasks - seed germination testing. SeedGerm – based on machine learnin...

• 28 international partners from 14 different countries are launching the new EU research project: INCREASE

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  28 international partners are launching the new EU research project INCREASE. Looking into the status of plant genetic resources of four important traditional E...

• EWG Investigation: Across Farm Country, Nitrate Pollution of Drinking Water for More Than 20 Million Americans Is Getting Worse

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  In much of America’s farm country, nitrate contamination of drinking water, largely caused by polluted runoff from crop fields, poses a serious health risk – ...

• AI goes underground: root crop growth predicted with drone imagery

  Date：Jun. 25, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Using machine learning, scientists can analyze drone images shot above the soil to understand how root crops respond to drought or heat beneath the soil. The Ph...

• New study reveals use of antibiotics on crops is more widespread than previously thought

  Date：Jun. 25, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The world is very aware of the overuse of antibiotics and the development of resistance in bacterial populations. What is less well known is that antibiotics, a...

• Insecticides the pesticide industry said were “safer for bees” found to stress and kill honey bees

  Date：Jun. 25, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Next-generation systemic insecticides, billed by the agrichemical industry as “safer for bees” than neonicotinoids, have been found to stress and kill honey b...

• IPEN studies evaluate SDG links with pesticide trends in Eastern Europe

  Date：Jun. 22, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) has published a series of studies on the production and use of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) in Arm...

• Soil organic matter helps fight HLB on citrus

  Date：Jun. 19, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Recent analysis of soil quality by a team of researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) has demonstrated that low levels of SOM in Florida could leave citru...

• Newly discovered plant gene could boost phosphorus intake

  Date：Jun. 17, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important gene in plants that could help agricultural crops collaborate better with underground...

• New nanoscale technology helps plants absorb nearly 100 percent of nutrients

  Date：Jun. 17, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have created a nanoscale technology that greatly boosts the absorption efficiency of plants. They claim that it can ...

• A plant strengthener found to suppress insect pest populations, increases crop yields

  Date：Jun. 17, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The research team led by Prof. LOU Yonggen from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology engaged in groundbreaking research in induced plant defenses for pe...

• New research shows "trace nutrient synergist" significantly increases the efficiency of controlled-release urea, rice yield increased by over 10%

  Date：Jun. 16, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Shan Dong Peng Bo Bio Technology Co. Ltd

  Controlled Release Fertilizer (CRF) is an important way to improve the utilization rate of nitrogen fertilizer. Can Trace Nutrient synergist help to realize fun...

• The Netherlands to invest 24.8 million euro for better use of micro-organisms

  Date：Jun. 16, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Together with Wageningen University & Research and the Delft University of Technology, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) will invest almost 25 million euros in r...

• How climate change is powering global pests

  Date：Jun. 12, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Research has found that global warming could increase the number of insect pests, and boost their appetite, as well as change their migration patterns, which co...

• Iowa State University agronomists list alternative for managing herbicide-resistant waterhemp in wake of dicamba ban

  Date：Jun. 11, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Numerous herbicides registered for postemergence use on Xtend soybean have excellent activity on important weeds of Iowa's soybean fields. Unfortunately, herbic...

• Researchers developing quick and simple method of glyphosate detection

  Date：Jun. 9, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Professor Tilo Pompe from the Institute of Biochemistry at Leipzig University has now reported on the scientific basis of the project together with his colleagu...

• Locust experts’ comment on plague development and pest control

  Date：Jun. 8, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The biggest swarms of desert locusts since the mid-1990s are sweeping across east Africa, the Middle East and south Asia. On this report, NRI Communications Off...

• Plant science support for registration of phosphites as biostimulants in EU

  Date：Jun. 8, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Supported by a BBSRC LINK grant, Dr Ranjan Swarup and colleagues from School of Biosciences, have been investigating the effect of phosphite on plant growth. Th...

• Robots armed with UV light fight grape mildew

  Date：Jun. 5, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Robots fitted with ultraviolet light lamps that roam vineyards at night are proving effective at killing powdery mildew, a devastating pathogen for many crops, ...

• South Korea succeeds in cultivating rice in UAE desert

  Date：Jun. 3, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Korea's Rural Development Administration (RDA), the state-run agricultural research institute has succeeded in growing rice in a desert in the United Arab Emira...

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• Giving plants ‘good’ bacteria could help them fight bugs and diseases and cut the need for pesticides

  Date：Jun. 3, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Scientists have developed plant ‘probiotics’ that help fight disease without the use of expensive pesticides. UK researchers say beneficial bacteria in soil s...

• Nitrogen-efficient fertilizer research could have lasting impact

  Date：Jun. 2, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  USDA funds work by Lehigh University engineering professor Jonas Baltrusaitis investigating novel materials to support crop growth with less environmental damag...

• Chile advances in breeding gene-edited crops that weather climate change

  Date：Jun. 1, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  After playing a key role in global genetically modified (GM) seed production for two decades, Chile is now leading the way in publicly developed gene-edited cro...

• Argentina Apresid confirms Conyza sumatrensis resistance to 3 more molecules

  Date：May. 27, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The Argentine Association of Direct Sowing Producers (Aapresid) published a yellow alert confirming that a black branch biotype (Conyza sumatrensis) developed r...

• Maryland confirms first spotted lanternfly hatch of 2020

  Date：May. 27, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The Maryland Department of Agriculture has confirmed the first spotted lanternfly hatch of 2020. The first instar nymph of the season was reported by a departme...

• Nanotechnology can boost crop yield during crises: Study

  Date：May. 26, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The metabolic activity of the seed or roots can be boosted at the very onset of their journey in the soil using nanotechnology which will result in better plant...

• A species of parasitic wasp discovered by chance could provide growers with a chemical-free way of controlling cabbage stem flea beetle

  Date：May. 26, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers made the discovery when the wasps appeared mysteriously in colonies of cabbage stem flea beetles (CSFB) they were studying to test feeding preferenc...

• Kenyan researchers seek approval to introduce disease-resistant cassava

  Date：May. 21, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Cassava researchers in Kenya have asked the Government to approve a disease-resistant genetically modified (GM) cassava which can protect the farmers cultivatin...

• Game-changing technologies can transform our food systems

  Date：May. 21, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  A pipeline of new technologies could transform our food systems, ecosystems and human health, but attention to the enabling environment is needed to realize the...