Science&Research

• No difference for beneficials between GM plants with one or more Bt-toxins

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

  The Biosafety Research Group at Agroscope has conducted a review of the literature on genetically modified plants that produce several insect-active Bacillus th...

  Tags:GM crop

• Identify a key gene for plant resistance against pathogens and saline soils

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

  The finding of scientists at the Leloir Institute sets the stage for improving different types of crops.

• Drone images detect two tomato diseases with 99% accuracy

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

  New technology being developed by University of Florida scientists identifies two dangerous tomato diseases with 99 percent accuracy. This finding is critical b...

  Tags:Pests&DiseasesPrecision FarmingFruits and Vegetables

• France: INRAE is born from the merger between INRA and Irstea

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

  The merger between the National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) and the National Research Institute for Science and Technology for the Environment and A...

  Tags:MergerEnvironment & Health

• Directed evolution of endogenous genes opens door to rapid agronomic trait improvement

  Date：Jan. 15, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  A research team led by Profs. GAO Caixia and LI Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have enginee...

• Nanosatellites improve detection of early-season corn nitrogen stress

  Date：Jan. 14, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  For corn growers, the decision of when and how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply is a perennial challenge. Scientists at the University of Illinois have shown t...

  Tags:Application & TechnologyPrecision FarmingMaize

• Publication of rapeseed genome assemblies could inform breeding of better performing, more sustainable varieties

  Date：Jan. 13, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  A consortium of key academic and global seed company leaders from the USA, Canada, Europe, and Israel are announcing the completion of multiple rapeseed/canola ...

  Tags:Oilseed Rape

• Plants speak ‘roundworm’ for self-defense, study shows

  Date：Jan. 13, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Nematodes are tiny, ubiquitous roundworms that infect plant roots, causing more than $100 billion in crop damage worldwide each year. New research has found tha...

  Tags:Nematicides

• K-State is awarded more than $200,000 to study cover crops program

  Date：Jan. 10, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture chose to fund two Kansas State University agronomy professors for their participation in a sustainable agriculture program. ...

• University of Georgia tomato researchers help track the ancestry of tomato to help build a brighter, tastier future for tomato farmers

  Date：Jan. 10, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The path from wild weed to the carefully cultivated vegetables that fill our refrigerators is not always a straightforward tale of domestication. Different cult...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Brazil: UFSCar opens new nanotechnology, biotechnology laboratories

  Date：Jan. 10, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) inaugurated two new research development buildings, the Chemistry Department Nanotechnology and Biotechnology Lab...

• Scientists improve yield predictions based on seedling data

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

  A doctor diagnosing a 50-year-old patient based on a blood test taken during the patient’s infancy would be unthinkable.

• Genes controlling mycorrhizal colonization discovered in soybean

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

  Like most plants, soybeans pair up with soil fungi in a symbiotic mycorrhizal relationship. In exchange for a bit of sugar, the fungus acts as an extension of t...

  Tags:Soybean

• Researchers struggle to engineer plants that cope with climate change

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

  A new study published by biologists at LMU demonstrates that there are no simple or universal solutions to the problem of engineering plants to enable them to c...

  Tags:GM crop

• Israel: As the planet warms, unusual crops could become climate saviors

  Date：Jan. 7, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  In southern Israel’s stifling heat, rows of salicornia, commonly known as sea asparagus or sea beans, grow under translucent tarps, planted into ground more sa...

• Nebraska plant scientist to help develop bio-based jet fuel

  Date：Jan. 7, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  A newly awarded grant from USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture aims to expand the use of oilseeds and other vegetable oil crops in renewable jet ...

• REM research: Glyphosate resistance no longer the only threat in Argentina

  Date：Jan. 6, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Every two years since 2013, the Pest Management Network (REM) has conducted surveys on major resistant and tolerant weeds in Argentina, and this year will be no...

  Tags:Herbicides

• Instead of costly hand weeding, Soil Solarization technique proven effective in hotter climates

  Date：Jan. 6, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  When that research was successful, Parke then received a Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program grant to expand her research to n...

  Tags:Pests&DiseasesOrganic Agriculture

• How plants can talk: emitting informative airborne sounds under stress

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

  Stressed plants show altered phenotypes, including changes in color, smell, and shape. Yet, the possibility that plants emit airborne sounds when stressed – si...

• Protecting New Plant Varieties in China and Its Major Problems

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

  China has achieved remarkable results for the protection of new plant varieties since it promulgated and implemented “Regulations for the Protection of New Pla...

• U.S. AFRI awards eight institutions $80 million focusing at increasing sustainability with cover crops

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

  Agriculture’s grand challenge of feeding the world’s growing population while protecting the environment just got a big boost. The U.S. Department of Agricult...

  Tags:Pests&DiseasesCottonSoybeanMaize

• Brazil: Embrapa will bet on CRISPR, says new president Celso Luiz Moretti

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

  This month, Celso Luiz Moretti was appointed as the president of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) by the minister of Agriculture, Lives...

  Tags:NematicidesPeopleSeedsOilseed Rape

• P2IRC delivers innovative approach to seed selection through prize-winning PlotVision software

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

  Developed by P2IRC research associate William van der Kamp under the leadership of USask computer scientist Ian Stavness, PlotVision is a Software as a Service ...

• Newly identified metabolite may have potential applications in promoting plant growth in nutrient-deficient soils

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

  A metabolite in plants that regulates the growth of anchor roots--vital for sustaining water and nutrient uptake in plants--has been identified and may have use...

• New insights into the earliest events of seed germination

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

  Plant seeds may strike the casual observer as unspectacular—but they have properties that are nothing short of superpowers.

• Uzbekistan to boost profitability of agricultural products by 70% with biological agri-inputs

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

  Fosstim and Rizokom biofertilizers have no analogues in the world, as eight patents of Uzbekistan were received for each strain, Head of the Commercialization a...

• Malaria mosquitoes sense insecticide with leg proteins: Study

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

  In a first, researchers have shown that proteins in the legs of malaria-carrying mosquitoes help them develop resistance to insecticides, an advance that may le...

• India record cotton productivity dues to PAU's plan of neem spray

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

  Bathinda Four years after cotton productivity dropped to low of 197kg lint per hectare due to white pestfly attack in 2015, agriculture experts say that the pro...

  Tags:Pests&DiseasesBiopesticidesCotton

• Irrigation Innovation Consortium announces projects it will be funding in 2020

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

  The Irrigation Innovation Consortium, a public-private initiative to advance irrigation research, recently announced funding for seven research projects in 2020...

  Tags:Spray & Irrigation

• Herbicide resistant weed could cost the United Kingdom £1 billion a year - Economic model addresses the costs of resistance in blackgrass

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

  Rothamsted Research

  Research by Rothamsted has helped put an economic figure on herbicide resistance in blackgrass, the farmland weed that is decimating winter-wheat yields across ...

  Tags:Pests&DiseasesApplication & Technologywheat