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Date：Apr. 23, 2019 Category：Science&Research
A simple change in the choice of grass varieties for many lawns in the United States could be a key tool for fending off fall armyworm infestations, according t...
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In the quest to separate the good traits from the bad, bioinformatics (computational biology) research at the Earlham Institute (EI), using a data driven strate...
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Date：Apr. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research
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A cost-effective technology has been developed by the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and Jaffer Agro Services (Private) Limited for application of bioher...
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a sustainable way to demonstrate a new genetic modification that can incre...
A group of Indian scientists has developed a new salt-tolerant transgenic rice plant by over-expressing a gene from a wild rice called Porteresia coarctata into...
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Date：Apr. 18, 2019 Category：Science&Research
The cucumber is among the top five vegetable crops grown in the world. Cucumbers are most commonly eaten fresh or preserved as pickles. An important attribute o...
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The Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (Embrapa) has developed, along with the Emater PR (Paranaense Institute of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension ...
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Date：Apr. 17, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Plant cell walls, as repositories of fixed carbon, are important sources of biomass, which is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin.
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Pollen genes mutate naturally in only some strains of corn, according to Rutgers-led research that helps explain the genetic instability in certain strains and ...
Date：Apr. 16, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Chinese farmers are facing worsening problems with jointed goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) - a close relative to wheat - growing in their wheat fields.
Tags:wheatGene Editing
Date：Apr. 15, 2019 Category：Science&Research
A pesticide used to control aphids and whiteflies called flupyradifurone, sold commercially as Sivanto, harms or even kills honey bees (Apis mellifera) when exp...
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Date：Apr. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Pre-crop values for a high number of previous and following crop combinations originating from farmers' fields are, for the first time, available to support div...
A Dubai-based gene bank containing the world’s largest collections of genetic material of heat- and salt-tolerant plant species has officially been made availa...
Date：Apr. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research
New CRISPR-based gene drives and broader active genetics technologies are revolutionizing the way scientists engineer the transfer of specific traits from one g...
Tags:Gene Editing
Date：Apr. 10, 2019 Category：Science&Research
University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers played a key role in an international consortium that has sequenced the entire genome of durum wheat—the source ...
An international research consortium has published the complete genome sequence of durum (pasta) wheat in Nature Genetics.
Date：Apr. 9, 2019 Category：Science&Research
A team of scientists led by University of Missouri maize geneticist Paula McSteen has identified a gene essential for forming the ears in corn.
In the next two decades, crop yields need to increase dramatically to feed the growing global population. Wouldn't it be incredibly useful if we had a crystal b...
Date：Apr. 8, 2019 Category：Science&Research
A team of engineers at the UC Berkeley and the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of The Claremont Colleges combined CRISPR with electronic transistors made from gra...
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Looking back at the past 2018, there were world-wide decreases of registrations and releases of new pesticide varieties while a number of old varieties were put...
A team of biologists and computer scientists has mapped out a network of interactions for how plant genes coordinate their response to nitrogen, a crucial nutri...
Date：Apr. 5, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Compounds produced by sorghum plants to defend against insect feeding could be isolated, synthesized and used as a targeted, nontoxic insect deterrent, accordin...
A biochemistry doctoral student at the University of Ibadan, Mojisola Karigidi, who is the founder of Moepelorse Bio Resources, has produced a bio-pesticide for...
Date：Apr. 3, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Maize is a staple crop that came from humble beginnings. If you look at its wild ancestor, teosinte, the plant looks nearly unrecognizable.
A multidisciplinary team of plant biologists and engineers has developed a software that uses machine learning to measure plant root length accurately. Root ana...
Date：Apr. 1, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University, has devoted much of the last decade and a half to creating grape to...
Date：Mar. 29, 2019 Category：Science&Research
Cutting-edge research helping to make modern wheat more resistant to pathogens has brought international recognition for a John Innes Centre scientist.
Date：Mar. 28, 2019 Category：Science&Research
A fungicide commonly used by the agricultural industry to protect grains, fruit and vegetables from mold damage seems to kill fungi by a previously uncharacteri...
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Salinity stress is considered one of the most important abiotic factors that limits the productivity of crop plants, and the estimated global cost due to salini...
Seeds remain in a dormant state - a temporary blockage of their germination - as long as environmental conditions are not ideal for germination.
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