Science&Research

• UCLA biologist’s research could lead to more resilient crops

  Date：Feb. 15, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Inari

  UCLA biologist Steve Jacobsen’s research has the potential to have a significant impact on the improvement of crops.

• Kline study: analysis of 2018 US crop protection programs available to distributors, retailers and growers

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

  Kline & Company, Inc.

  By program effectiveness, Corteva, Bayer, and BASF are the top three companies with the most distributors, according to Kline's recently published report, Effec...

• Oxfam research report on the patenting of plants and seeds in the global south

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

  Oxfam presents a new research paper that provides an overview of the current status of the patenting of plants in developing countries and emerging economies.

• Current crop protection transformation challenges in France

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

  A new paper now available online reveals the extraordinary policy efforts made in France in order to reduce the use of chemical plant protection products and tr...

• Researchers discover corn plants call in hungry nematodes when resistant rootworms attack

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

  Someday – in some scientifically savvy encyclopedia perhaps – the word “resilience” may include a photograph of the Western Corn Rootworm. This crafty, intr...

  Tags:Maize

• How plants expand their capacity to use solar energy

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

  Green plants capture light that spans the visible solar spectrum, and while a broad spectral range is required for sufficient absorption, the process requires e...

• US (GA): Beneficial insects can prove useful for greenhouse crops

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

  While the use of beneficial insects and other biocontrols for agricultural pest management hasn’t gained widespread usage in open field production, some Georgi...

• ToBRF Virus found in Sicily, Italy

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

  The Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (TBRFV or ToBRFV) is unfortunately present in Sicily. Walter Davino shared the terrible news. He is a professor of plant pat...

• Biostimulants improve the nutritional value of iceberg lettuce

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

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  Studies carried out by Tradecorp in various Iceberg lettuce orchards in the region of Murcia confirm that the use of biostimulants and soil activators, such as ...

• Technology helps breeding move forward

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

  Plant breeding has existed for centuries, but so much has changed in the last ten years. As a result of the intensified collaboration between breeders and labor...

• Zach Lippman susses out how gene regulation affects plant phenotypes

  Date：Feb. 6, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  For Zach Lippman, it all started with seeds. As a teenager with a summer job on a small farm in Connecticut that grew primarily vegetables, he marveled at how, ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

  Tags:Fruits and VegetablesGene Editing

• How rapeseed could be used as a protein source for human nutrition

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

  Rapeseed doesn't just contain oil but high-quality protein, too. However, protein extracts from rapeseed have an intense, bitter off-taste. A team led by food c...

  Tags:Oilseed Rape

• Yr15 wheat stripe rust resistance gene: discovery, cloning and future perspectives

  Date：Jan. 31, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  In October 2018, an international team of researchers released a paper that described the main results of the cloning of the highly effective wheat stripe rust ...

  Tags:wheat

• A salt-tough Australian rice shares some of its secrets

  Date：Jan. 31, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A team of scientists from the University of Sydney, Macquarie University and the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) have identified a novel source of sa...

  Tags:Rice

• Researchers develop better millet varieties

  Date：Jan. 29, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)

  Farmers will soon get drought- and disease-resistant finger millet varieties, experts have said.

• Wheat can be made safe for people with coeliac disease by using gene editing

  Date：Jan. 28, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  One to two per cent of the population has Coeliac Disease (CD), an immune reaction to gluten. Wheat grains contain gluten, a mixture of glutenin and gliadin pro...

  Tags:wheatGene Editing

• A boost for photosynthesis

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

  Photosynthesis is a fundamental biological process which allows plants to use light energy for their growth. Most life forms on Earth are directly or indirectly...

• Study finds remote sensing successful for predicting nitrogen requirements in rice

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

  Results of a new rice imagery study show successful prediction of rice nitrogen uptake at panicle initiation (2018 Rice R&D Update from AgriFutures). The study ...

• Using nuclear science in marker-assisted plant breeding

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

  Imagine you must identify a glass of seawater among a hundred glasses of drinking water merely by looking at them. Almost impossible! But what if the glass with...

  Tags:Seed breeding

• UFU develops microencapsulation of Trichoderma asperellum for microbiological fungicides

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

  A study was conducted the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on how to improve the economic viability of the use of ...

• Increasing temperatures may help preserve crop nutrition

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

  Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition. A new study in Plant Journal from the Univer...

• Rising temperatures may safeguard crop nutrition as climate changes

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

  Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition. A new study in Plant Journal from the Univer...

• To secure the future of food, look to the ancestors of eggplant

  Date：Jan. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  World Vegetable Center

  In a greenhouse in tropical southern Taiwan grows a small tree. From its hardy trunk sprout stems with wide, fuzzy leaves and sprays of white star-like flowers....

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications

  Date：Jan. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn, researchers solved an almost six-decades-old ...

• Electronic seed treatment to be presented at Brazil Agrishow

  Date：Jan. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  An innovative alternative to the traditional treatment of seeds through chemical agents during pre-planting is emerging. It is the treatment of seeds through el...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• New technologies enable better-than-ever details on genetically modified plants

  Date：Jan. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Salk researchers have mapped the genomes and epigenomes of genetically modified plant lines with the highest resolution ever to reveal exactly what happens at a...