Science&Research

• Genomic gymnastics help sorghum plant survive drought

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

  Scorching temperatures and parched earth are no match for the sorghum plant — this cereal crop, native to Africa and Australia, will remain green and productiv...

• Most complete commercial sugarcane genome sequence assembled

  Date：Dec. 5, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  An international group of researchers led by Brazilian scientists has assembled the most complete genome sequence of commercial sugarcane. They mapped 373,869 g...

• University of Kentucky researchers find new soybean pathway that responds to pathogenic and beneficial microbes

  Date：Dec. 5, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  University of Kentucky plant pathologists Aardra Kachroo and Pradeep Kachroo have discovered a new pathway that helps soybeans fight off diseases.

  Tags:Soybean

• Study finds wasp can reduce fall armyworm leaf consumption rate by up to 89 percent

  Date：Dec. 4, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  In a recently published study led by Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), researchers assessed, under lab conditions, the effect of the e...

• Iron-boosting GM wheat trials ‘successful’

  Date：Dec. 4, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Wheat bio-fortified to produce white flour with increased iron has progressed successfully through the first season of field trials.

  Tags:GM cropwheat

• SFU researchers discover eyes a potential window for managing insects without chemicals

  Date：Dec. 3, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The world’s insects are headed down the path of extinction with more than 40 per cent of insect species in decline according to the first global scientific rev...

• An eco-friendly method for curbing crop pests

  Date：Dec. 3, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Fraunhofer

  Moths and other winged insects, and particularly their larva, can become a problem for farmers, often causing major damage to crops. Pesticides help alleviate t...

• First experimental releases of "Tamarixia dryi" in Spain and Portugal

  Date：Dec. 3, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  For about five years, citrus plantations in Galicia and northern Portugal have been home to one of the biggest threats to Mediterranean citrus farming: the Afri...

• Research sheds light on Queensland weed issue

  Date：Dec. 3, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) research trip to Africa has unearthed possible biocontrol solutions to an aggressive weed affecting a...

• Gene controls plant-fungi relationship

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

  The breakthrough could lead to crops that are better able to cope with harsh growing conditions and resist pests

• On balance, some neonicotinoid pesticides could benefit bees: study

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

  The story of neonicotinoids is growing more nuanced. Europe has banned outdoor use of three of these insecticides to protect bee populations. Two other neonicot...

• Herbicide tolerant wheat to improve productivity

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

  A team of researchers from The University of Western Australia has discovered key genes in wheat that are associated with Metribuzin herbicide tolerance.

  Tags:wheat

• GM potato trials point to blight resistant crops of the future

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

  A genetically modified potato with improved tuber quality and resistance to the devastating disease late blight has progressed successfully through the latest s...

  Tags:GM cropPotato

• Do smallholders get the right seed and inputs from their agrodealer?

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

  The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) recently carried out a survey of agrodealers in Uganda and Tanzania to answer such questions relat...

• CRISPR gene editing protects apples from orchard-destroying fire blight disease

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

  The bacterium Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight disease in apple, triggers its infection through the DspA/E effector which interacts with the a...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Building better barley for high-rainfall zones

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

  A new research partnership aims to improve commercial barley varieties to better tolerate waterlogging, a problem that affects farmers in high-rainfall zones an...

• Pollen polysaccharide, a new botanical extraction bio-stimulant

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

  Chengdu Newsun Crop Science Co., Ltd.

  Pollen Polysaccharide is extracted from pollen of different plants and is rich in amino acids, proteins, vitamins, flavonoids and other beneficial ingredients, ...

• Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands

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

  Providing seeds with a protective coating that also supplies essential nutrients to the germinating plant could make it possible to grow crops in otherwise unpr...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• Promising new biocontrol for invasive weed silverleaf nightshade

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

  Agriculture Victoria research scientists have identified a bug and a mite in America that could help tackle one of Australia’s worst agricultural weeds – silv...

• Initiative to create organic tomatoes that resist disease, taste good

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

  A multi-institution research initiative aims to breed new varieties of organic tomatoes resistant to foliar diseases and maintain the taste consumers want.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years

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

  ICRISAT’s chickpea researchers have developed a breeding protocol that holds the potential to create new varieties of chickpea in half-time.

• Single gene discovery found to boost yield

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

  Corteva researchers kept searching, despite indications that lone genes might not hold growth promises

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Nanobiotech research should lead to products and tech for agriculture

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

  The TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre (TDNBC) and the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, are looking to advance research and product developme...

• Interaction with fungus containing nitrogen-fixing endobacteria improves rice nitrogen nutrition

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

  Researchers Karnelia Paul of the University of Calcutta (India), Chinmay Saha of the University of Kalyani (India), and Anindita Seal of the University of Calcu...

• China's agricultural science performance ranks second in world

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

  China's performance in agricultural research frontier, agricultural sci-tech papers and patents ranks second in the world, according to the Chinese Academy of A...

• International team of researchers discover origin of deadly wheat virus

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

  The origin of a deadly wheat pathogen which threatens a vital global food source has been identified by an international team of academic researchers including ...

  Tags:wheat

• Gene editing delivers 15-16% protein sorghum

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

  Researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in sorghum, elevating the protein of the globally important cereal crop from 9-10 per cent to a staggering 15-16p...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat genome sequenced for the first time

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

  The study, published in Nature Plants, has been carried out by an international research team including CRAG researcher Laura R. Botigué.

  Tags:wheat

• Spodoptera frugiperdas that strike China have high resistance to traditional pesticides

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

  The research shows that it is not suitable to use such traditional pesticides as organophosphorus pesticide, organochlorine pesticide and pyrethroid to control ...

• A thousand melon genomes: understanding the past to improve the future

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

  In 2012, the Melonomics project, a public-private consortium led by researchers from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) published the first...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables