Science&Research

• Brazil approves environmentally ‘Friendly’ GM tool for controlling fall armyworm

  Date：Apr. 20, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Brazilian farmers are a step closer to using an environmentally friendly tool to control a destructive agricultural pest with the government’s approval of Oxit...

• Beetles that pee themselves to death could be tomorrow’s pest control

  Date：Apr. 20, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Instead of using toxic pesticides that damage biodiversity, environment and human health, the researchers seek to exploit beetles’ greatest strength against th...

• Brazil Embrapa discloses 2 new genomes of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the cause of Asian rust

  Date：Apr. 19, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) has released two new genomes of the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, which causes Asian rust, according to th...

  Tags:Soybean

• Tree-fungus supplement could reduce fertilizer use in tomato crops

  Date：Apr. 16, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Although Ceriporia lacerata fungus causes tree wood to rot, it also has a good side. According to a new study, adding the fungus to agricultural soil allows tom...

• Wild barley from Jordan holds key to stem rust resistance

  Date：Apr. 16, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Led by Eva Henningsen, plant pathologists at the University of Minnesota turned to a diverse collection of wild barley and discovered several accessions from Jo...

• Betting on drones as smart agricultural tools for pesticide use in farms

  Date：Apr. 16, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers in Japan compared drones to well-established technologies for spraying pesticide over rice paddy fields. Using statistical data, the researchers exp...

• New glyphosate resistance mechanism discovered in plants

  Date：Apr. 15, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  In a world-first breakthrough for research into herbicide resistance, a team of Australian and international scientists has discovered a new glyphosate resistan...

  Tags:Herbicides

• The DNA of lettuce unravelled: in 6000 years from weed to beloved vegetable

  Date：Apr. 14, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  The special history of lettuce has been described in detail thanks to the DNA analysis of 445 types of lettuce, conducted by Wageningen University & Research an...

• Crop rotations with beans and peas offer more sustainable and nutritious food production

  Date：Apr. 14, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Growing more legumes, like beans and lentils, is potentially a more sustainable and nutritious approach to European agriculture, shows a new study in Frontiers ...

• Diverse nematode collection aids researchers in the soybean checkoff funded SCN genome sequencing project

  Date：Apr. 14, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  The nematodes have been adapted to reproduce on many of the current sources of resistance used in SCN resistant soybean varieties and assisted in the soybean ch...

  Tags:Soybean

• USDA/ARS scientists focus on the future of soybeans

  Date：Apr. 14, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Predicting plant health in the field can be a difficult task, but scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are helping soybean farmers in North Car...

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• ToBRFV: first trial results confirm a high resistance level

  Date：Apr. 14, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  In 2020 Enza Zaden announced the discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) High Resistance gene, a complete solution for ToBRFV. Since the annou...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Breakthrough in plant protection: RNAi pesticides affect only one pest species

  Date：Apr. 13, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Using the pollen beetle (Brassicogethes aeneus) and its host crop oilseed rape (Brassica napus) as a model crop pest system, a team of researchers examined how ...

• Zhejiang University scientists discover that watermelons grow faster at night

  Date：Apr. 12, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers pioneered in continuously monitoring the stem flow inside a plant through this wearable electronic sensing device which can harmlessly cohabitate wi...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• The future of agricultural gene editing: More herbicide-tolerant crops sooner

  Date：Apr. 9, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  A new paper from Chinese scientists spells out the future of agricultural gene editing. In spite of claims from GMO promoters that gene editing will save us fro...

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• Beneficial bacteria help wheat stand the heat

  Date：Apr. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Bacteria plucked from a desert plant could help crops survive heatwaves and protect the future of food.

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• Research: Effect of biostimulants on yield and quality of cherry tomatoes grown in fertile and stressed soils

  Date：Apr. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Plant biostimulants are microorganisms (PGPR) and/or products obtained from different organic substances that positively affect plant growth and efficiency and ...

• Researchers validate new technique for rapidly diagnosing herbicide-resistant weeds

  Date：Apr. 8, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  A recent article in the journal Weed Science describes a new rapid 'leaf-disk assay' that uses chlorophyll fluorescence emissions to determine whether a weed is...

  Tags:Herbicides

• British scientists crack ‘calcium conundrum’ for carrot cavity spot

  Date：Apr. 7, 2021 Category：Science&Research

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  Now a team of British scientists claims to have solved this ‘calcium conundrum’, offering growers the ability to tackle cavity spot without recourse to fungic...

• University of Minnesota researchers develop 99.9% accurate genetic test for early detection of Palmer Amaranth

  Date：Apr. 6, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  In a recent study published in Pest Management Science, researchers have developed a new test for identifying Palmer Amaranth that is more robust, easier to us...

• Fungi could manipulate bacteria to enrich soil with nutrients

  Date：Apr. 5, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  A team of researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) has discovered a distinct group of bacteria that may help fungi and plants acquire soil nutrients....

• New report quantifies the impact of 20 years of CGIAR-led maize improvement for Africa

  Date：Apr. 2, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  These are just some of the key findings of Impacts of CGIAR Maize Improvement in sub-Saharan Africa, 1995-2015 a new, comprehensive review of the two decades of...

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• First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified

  Date：Apr. 2, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  The finding, reported in Cell, is the first known example of a natural gene transfer from a plant to an insect. It also explains one reason why the whitefly Bem...

• University of Illinois economists report on historical growing of soybean production in Brazil

  Date：Apr. 2, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Soybean production in Brazil over the past 30 years has increased almost ninefold, from 566 million bushels for the 1990/91 crop to 4,965 million bushels for th...

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• Western Australia - Alternatives to glyphosate research project commences

  Date：Apr. 1, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Herbicides other than glyphosate to control summer weeds and for pre-cropping knockdown treatments will be explored as part of a new, two year project.

  Tags:Herbicides

• Two thirds of farmland at risk of pesticide pollution

  Date：Mar. 31, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  A global map of agricultural land across 168 countries has revealed that 64 percent of land used for agriculture and food crops is at risk of pesticide pollutio...

• Wheat blast pandemic spread over three continents

  Date：Mar. 30, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Genetic analyses on a destructive wheat blast fungus link the pandemics in South America, South East Asia and Zambia.

  Tags:wheat

• University of Maryland reports six novel variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in plants, expanding genome engineering

  Date：Mar. 30, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  New publication in Nature Plants details the first application of CRISPR-Cas12b in plants, providing gene editing, activation, and repression capabilities all i...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Book review: All knowleadge you need to know about new researches and findings of crop protection products

  Date：Mar. 30, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  The new book‘Recent Highlights in the Discovery and Optimization of Crop Protection Products’, based on key presentations given at the 14th International IUPA...

• United Kingdom - SCEPTREplus sets sights on new pest, weed and disease targets

  Date：Mar. 26, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  With over 20 trials set to take place to find new and alternative plant protection products for a range of horticulture crops, the SCEPTREplus project is as bus...