Science&Research

• Satellite imagery, artificial intelligence to improve farm yields in Maharashtra

  Date：Oct. 16, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Launched in January this year, the Maha Agri Tech project seeks to use technology to address various cultivation risks ranging from poor rains to pest attacks, ...

• Argentine scientists discover a gene that "slows" the development of the lateral roots of plants

  Date：Oct. 16, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The finding of Santa Fe scientists sets the stage for improving the ability of crops to better absorb water and nutrients from the soil and adapt to drought, sa...

• Scientists track wheat aphids and their natural enemies for better pest management in Pakistan

  Date：Oct. 14, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  For the first time, CABI scientists have studied the distribution and population dynamics of wheat aphids and their natural enemies in Pakistan through seasons ...

• AGRA partners with Tony Blair Institute to catalyse Africa’s agriculture transformation

  Date：Oct. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

  Research by the Tony Blair Institute for its Jobs Gap report found that, on the current trajectory, there will remain a shortfall of 40 million jobs and livelih...

• Scientists find genetic variation that allows the moth to change its biological clock and adjust to shorter winters

  Date：Oct. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A team of biologists led by Tufts University has found two genes that may permit some insect species to survive climate change by adjusting their biological ann...

• VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology devises a CRISPR-based tissue-specific knockout system

  Date：Oct. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A team from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, led by Drs. Thomas Jacobs, Moritz Nowack, and Tom Beeckman has devised a CRISPR-based tissue-specifi...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Nodulation connected to higher resistance against powdery mildew in legumes

  Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Recent research from RWTH Aachen University shows that nodulation might positively impact the plant's microbiome in other ways.

• Microsatellite data can help double the impact of agricultural interventions

  Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)

  Data from microsatellites can be used to detect and double the impact of sustainable interventions in agriculture at large scales, according to a new studyled b...

• Integrated management approaches to combat plant virus diseases

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Investigations by The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Institute of Agriculture and Washington State University (WSU) in the USA have concluded that the...

• Machine learning helps plant science turn over a new leaf

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Now, Salk researchers have helped speed up plant phenotyping even more, with machine-learning algorithms that teach a computer system to analyze three-dimension...

• First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing released in Ethiopia

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety

• China grows a cotton plant on the far side of the moon in a biological first

  Date：Oct. 7, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  China has broken new lunar ground, successfully growing cotton on the moon for the first time. The experiment was part of the Chang’e 4 project, in which China...

  Tags:Cotton

• Crop plants of the future will fix nitrogen using synthetic biology

  Date：Oct. 2, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The root microbiome is for plants similar to what the gut microbiome is for humans in many ways. It’s the interface between organisms, where nutrients are abso...

• Gene responsible for lutein esterification in bread wheat identified

  Date：Oct. 2, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The American Society of Plant Biologists is pleased to announce the publication of research with significant implications for lutein esterification in bread whe...

  Tags:wheat

• Complete genome of devastating soybean pathogen assembled

  Date：Oct. 1, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  KeyGene Inc

  An international research collaboration has successfully assembled the complete genome sequence of the pathogen that causes the devastating disease Asian soybea...

• With CRISPR and machine learning, startups fast-track crops to consume less, produce more

  Date：Sep. 30, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Agbiotech newcomer Inari has raised $89 million to pursue an ambitious goal: to challenge the status quo in agriculture.

  Tags:Precision FarmingGene Editing

• Insects might soon be trained to protect crops

  Date：Sep. 30, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Biological control, in which insect populations are reduced by using other insects (their natural enemies) is generally accepted as a sustainable and ecological...

• Wheat is one step closer to photosynthesis-based yield gains

  Date：Sep. 30, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Photosynthesis is the trait now being targeted globally to deliver future yield gains in bread wheat. Crucial to these efforts is the ability to measure and com...

  Tags:wheat

• New function in a protein of plants essential to developing drought-tolerant crops

  Date：Sep. 27, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The BAG4 protein regulates the flow of potassium in occlusive cells, which optimizes the use of water by the plant.

• South Dakota State University biofilm center researchers focus on nitrogen-fixing bacteria

  Date：Sep. 27, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  South Dakota State University faculty from four departments will work on improving the ability of nitrogen-fixing bacteria to colonize soybean roots through the...

• Farmers reap rewards of biological pest control

  Date：Sep. 26, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Farmers and growers who want to protect plants from predators can choose from chemical or biological weapons. Although both have a long history, chemical warfar...

• Gene drives in plants: opportunities and challenges for weed control and engineered resilience

  Date：Sep. 26, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Plant species, populations and communities are under threat from climate change, invasive pathogens, weeds and habitat fragmentation.

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Scientists identified significant new chromosomal regions for wheat yield and disease resistance

  Date：Sep. 25, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Using the full wheat genome map published in 2018, combined with data from field testing of wheat breeding lines in multiple countries, an international team of...

  Tags:wheat

• Turning up the heat for weed control

  Date：Sep. 24, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Weeds are thieves. They steal nutrients, sunlight and water from our food crops. In the case of sugarcane, yield refers to the amount of biomass and the sucrose...

• Discovery of sorghum gene that controls bird feeding could help protect crops

  Date：Sep. 24, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A single gene in sorghum controls bird feeding behavior by simultaneously regulating the production of bad-tasting molecules and attractive volatiles, according...

• India: Study paves the way for new approach to boost rice yield

  Date：Sep. 23, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Rice productivity in India is low compared to other countries like China and Japan though it has the largest area under rice cultivation. Now scientists at the ...

  Tags:Rice

• How DNA could be key to stopping the dangerous decline of Canada's bee colonies

  Date：Sep. 23, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  As honey bee colonies across Canada continue to die off at alarming rates, scientists at York University believe that solutions to the problem could be hiding i...

• Research project launched on 'miracle plant' Moringa, for its function as biostimulant

  Date：Sep. 23, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) Multan's agriculturists have launched a research project on moringa, also called a 'miracle plant'.

• Genetic code to increase the size of rice grain cracked

  Date：Sep. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  As a consequence, the yield per every rice plant would increase, providing the country with yet another option to augment rice productivity.

  Tags:Rice

• Bacterial remedy for the toxic pesticide Carbaryl: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  Date：Sep. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Dr Phale and his team from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), and collaborator Dr Sharma from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology...