Science&Research

• Innovative use of machine learning to forecast crop disease risk

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Crop diseases can generate destructive outbreaks that have the potential to threaten global food security, which is why it is fundamental to have reliable data ...

• Insect Armageddon: Low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insects

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  New research has identified a mechanism by which low levels of insecticides such as, the neonicotinoid Imidacloprid, could harm the nervous, metabolic and immun...

• The 7 major challenges in understanding humic acids

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  The Humic Acid market remains one of the most challenging, confusing, and least understood aspects of the global agricultural input market. Tradecorp analysed t...

• Drones and Indian farming: A case study

  Date：Sep. 24, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The use of drones in Indian agriculture has been an issue rife with debate, and the past decade has seen an equal measure of views emanating from endorsing and ...

• Genome editing technologies could revolutionise agriculture - IDTechEx report

  Date：Sep. 24, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  21st century agriculture is facing some major challenges. The global population is projected to increase to 10 billion by 2050. Feeding this many people will re...

• Space nematodes: A giant leap for interplanetary agriculture

  Date：Sep. 23, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  In a successful return-to-space mission, research study results indicate that beneficial insect-killing nematodes (small round worms) can be used in the future ...

• E. coli can improve photosynthesis with the use of the rubisco enzyme

  Date：Sep. 23, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Scientists have found that E. coli can improve Photosynthesis, engineering a key Rubisco enzyme from plants, and putting it inside Escherichia coli bacteria to ...

• Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

  Date：Sep. 23, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Biological nitrogen fixation is a potential solution to these problems. Legume crops like beans, peanuts, soybeans, and alfalfa get much of their nitrogen from...

• New resistance gene to devastating potato disease that caused Irish Famine

  Date：Sep. 22, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Late blight is the most important pathogen in potato and causes devastation worldwide. The disease, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, was the trigg...

• A novel regulator of stomatal immunity in tomato

  Date：Sep. 22, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The ability of a pathogen to successfully colonize a plant is determined in large part by its capacity to rapidly enter the host tissue. While most fungal patho...

• Texas Tech University, Nanjing Agricultural University research teams make plant nutrient delivery breakthrough

  Date：Sep. 21, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Fungi play a critical role in the growth and development of plant life and have for millions of years. Scientists have known for a long time that arbuscular myc...

• Shortcut to breed better non-GMO crops - Utrecht scientists discover fast-forward plant improvement technology

  Date：Sep. 18, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Utrecht scientists demonstrates a new, non-GMO technology to develop new crops at a fraction of the costs of traditional breeding. By engineering the genes of b...

• New study identifies wheat varieties that resist the destructive stripe rust disease

  Date：Sep. 18, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Stripe rust is one of the most destructive wheat diseases in the world, especially in the United States. Rather than use chemicals, many farmers would prefer to...

• Antifungal activity of gallic acid against Alternaria

  Date：Sep. 18, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Tomato is among the most important vegetable crops worldwide. Early blight disease, caused by Alternaria solani, is a destructive foliar disease of tomato and o...

• UCR scientist: “HLB solution could be available in three years”

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

  Invaio Sciences

  University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientist Hailing Jin believes she has found a substance capable of controlling the deadly citrus greening disease kno...

• Research explores factors influencing soybean injury by synthetic auxin herbicides

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

  Synthetic auxin products have given growers an important option for managing weed populations resistant to glyphosate and other herbicides. But according to an ...

• Friendly fungus protects against wheat scab - A beneficial fungal "tenant" of wheat plants could help protect them from another fungus that causes scab disease and other harm

  Date：Sep. 11, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  A fungal tenant of sorts that lives inside wheat plants could get its chance to "pay it forward" in the fight against fusarium head blight (a.k.a. scab), a cost...

• UK: There's more to TUYV resistance than you may think

  Date：Sep. 11, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  The increased performance of TuYV resistant varieties seen in harvest trials and across UK farms recently might not just be down to their ability to withstand i...

• UK research finds new soybean yield bump from timed fungicide, insecticide use

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

  University of Kentucky researchers are studying the reasons behind an unexpected yield increase that appeared in a doctoral student’s soybean research.

• University of Illinois study reports net returns of conventional vs. organic crop production

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

  Due to continued increases in demand for certified organic grains, crop farmers that have transitioned from conventional to certified organic grains report high...

• Phosphites act as potent Biostimulants, by encouraging root development and improving Nitrogen assimilation

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

  The PBSG group works with scientists and researchers from both industry and academia to promote scientific based evidence to stakeholders such as European Regul...

• Newly identified gene grants tomatoes resistance to bacterial speck disease

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

  Bacterial speck disease, which reduces both fruit yield and quality, has been a growing problem in tomatoes over the last five years. Because the culpable bacte...

• Bacillus velezensis inhibits fusarium oxysporum growth, induces systemic resistance to CMV

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

  Bacillus velezensis manifests robust biocontrol activity against fungal plant pathogens; however, its antiviral activity has rarely been investigated. Bacillus ...

• University of New Hampshire researcher to develop new gene editing tools

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

  A researcher at the University of New Hampshire has received a USDA grant to develop new gene editing tools that could help scientists unravel how certain bacte...

• EI’s synthetic biology team rewrites the rules on plant gene expression

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

  In breakthrough work at the Earlham Institute, researchers in plant synthetic biology have identified how the identity, density and positions of specific DNA ‘...

• Biological control agents can protect soybeans from Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS)

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

  Recently, Mirian Pimentel, a PhD student, and a group of plant pathologists at Southern Illinois University, discovered a promising new tool to fight sudden dea...

• Scientists find ‘cannabis extract’ can help save bees from pesticide poisoning

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

  The team from Lublin’s Maria Curie-Skłodowska University are the first in the world to test the longevity of bees who have been exposed to pesticides after re...

• Pesticide-free crop protection yields up to US$ 20 billion/year benefits in Asia-Pacific

  Date：Sep. 1, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Scientists have estimated for the first time how nature-based solutions for agricultural pest control deliver US$14.6 to US$19.5 billion annually across 23 coun...

• Modelling tools equip scientists to predict pest and disease attacks in a climate change scenario

  Date：Aug. 31, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  A five-day workshop on agricultural pest and disease modeling was conducted to equip agricultural scientists with tools and techniques to create and accurately ...

• Chinese researchers develop new method to control fall armyworm

  Date：Aug. 31, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Chinese researchers have developed a more targeted approach to control fall armyworm by using drones to spray a new kind of granular pesticide, according to the...