Science&Research

• University of Sheffield scientists develop climate-ready wheat that can survive drought conditions

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

  Wheat plants engineered to have fewer microscopic pores – called stomata – on their leaves are better able to survive drought conditions associated with clima...

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• Disrupting one gene could be first step toward treating honey bee parasite Nosema ceranae

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

  USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have taken the first step towards a weapon against the major honey bee parasite Nosema ceranae.

• Insect-deterring sorghum compounds may be eco-friendly pesticide

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

  Compounds produced by sorghum plants to defend against insects could be used as a targeted, nontoxic insect deterrent.Researchers examined the role of sorghum c...

• FAO’s seed fair links farmers to certified quality seed in northeastern Nigeria

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

  Gombi local government area lies two hours outside Yola, the capital of Adamawa, and a mere three-hour drive to Cameroon.

• Adding glyphosate to dicamba increases volatility, researchers find

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

  Glyphosate is often tank-mixed with dicamba. New research suggests spraying dicamba in warm temperatures and adding glyphosate to a dicamba spray mixture could ...

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• Ghana: New law to regulate GM foods laid in Parliament for approval

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

  A new law that will help regulate the introduction of Genetically Modified (GMO) foods in Ghana has been laid in parliament for approval.

• Iowa State researchers studying slow-release fertilizer to make biochar more valuable

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Iowa State University researchers weren’t looking for a slow-release fertilizer that could feed crops while protecting water quality, but they may have found o...

• Innovative approach to tackling pesticide resistance evolution, the study will focus on Brazil

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A new £620,000 study led by the University of Stirling is taking a "revolutionary approach" in attempting to tackle resistance to pesticides in insects.

• New interdisciplinary research focuses on crop resilience

  Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Research suggests that microbes in the soil, roots and leaves have important impacts on plant health and productivity. Now, new interdisciplinary research at No...

• UK - Black-grass with reduced sensitivity to glyphosate detected

  Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Early signs of decreased sensitivity to the herbicide glyphosate have been detected in several black-grass field populations in England.

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• Research shows temperature, glyphosate increase probability for dicamba volatility

  Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Higher temperatures and mixing glyphosate with dicamba lead to increased atmospheric concentrations of dicamba, according to scientists with the University of T...

• Natural herbicide found in Argentina could control weeds

  Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  INBIOAR S.A.

  Inbioar is a biotechnological project, which through phytochemistry and ecology seeks to develop products from plant extracts for crop protection. What is the n...

• New gene-editing system precisely inserts large DNA sequences into cellular DNA

  Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A team led by researchers from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, has characterized and engineered a new ...

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• New research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine

  Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)'s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant's circadi...

• A model to guide seed choices according to climate

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  How do you know if a seed is well suited to a given environment? How can you predict its yield for a particular climate?

• USDA/ARS researchers strive to develop stripe rust resistant wheat

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  As most farmers and many non-farmers know, stripe rust is nobody's friend. Seeing this dangerous disease on your crop can be devastating to a farmer's yield.

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• A combination of insecticides and mite weakens honeybees

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Today, scientists of the Institute of Bee Health of the University of Bern and the honeybee research association COLOSS have published an article in the peer-re...

• Crop scientists looking for ways to beat the heat

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Can a small circuit board, barely the size of a credit card, help the world’s wheat to beat the heat?

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• New microneedle technique speeds plant disease detection

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

  Researchers have developed a new technique that uses microneedle patches to collect DNA from plant tissues in one minute, rather than the hours needed for conve...

• China: Trials underway for saltwater rice strains

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

  China has planted about 300 new strains of saltwater-tolerant rice on 670 hectares of experimental alkali fields in search of resilient, high-yield varieties th...

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• Biopesticide spinosad, popular in organic farming, may harm honeybees

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

  The research is to determine potential adverse outcome pathways of spinosad and to identify molecular effects by investigating transcriptional alterations in th...

• Scientists discover gene that could help us grow crops faster

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

  Plant scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bordeaux have discovered a gene that they hope can be used to widen a nutrient trafficking bottleneck and ...

• Cornell improves global access to potato breeding material

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Cornell’s plant breeders and geneticists have played a significant role in the improvement of the potato, having released more than 50 varieties since 1908.

• Clemson University scientists designing robots to fill agricultural labor gap

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The agricultural workforce is shrinking and some Clemson University researchers believe robots may help provide a means to protect America’s food and fiber ind...

• System uses plants to lure fall armyworm away from maize fields

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Climate conditions in Nepal are suitable for the establishment of fall armyworm, which could cause considerable crop loss if not managed properly. The fall army...

• A WSU study finds exposure to prevalent herbicide Roundup can cause problems generations later

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

  For the multiyear study, researchers including Michael Skinner, a WSU professor of biological sciences, exposed pregnant rats to just half the rate of the commo...

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• Twenty-one years of using insect resistant (GM) maize in Spain and Portugal: farm-level economic and environmental contributions

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

  This study assesses the economic and environmental impacts that have arisen from the adoption and use of genetically modified (GM) insect resistant (IR) maize i...

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• IALR launches the US' first plant endophyte research center to fight crop diseases

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

  The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) has launched the nation’s first Plant Endophyte Research Center to champion sustainable solutions for e...

• Chinese scientists complete whole genome sequencing of ancient wheat seeds

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

  Chinese scientists have sequenced the whole genome of 3,800-year-old wheat seeds unearthed from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, decoding the food crop's sprea...

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• Scientists stack algorithms to improve predictions of yield-boosting crop traits

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

  Hyperspectral data comprises the full light spectrum; this dataset of continuous spectral information has many applications from understanding the health of the...