Science&Research

• Beating the 'billion-dollar bug' is a shared burden

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

  A lurking threat that has stymied US corn growers for decades is now returning to the forefront: western corn rootworm. Sometimes referred to as the “billion-d...

• Zimbabwe: Centre develops new hybrid maize resistant to armyworm

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

  The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) has developed new maize hybrid varieties showing promising resistance to the destructive fall army...

• International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) releases wasp to control devastating tomato leafminer

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

  In a landmark move for tomato production in Africa, the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) has released a parasitic wasp that will na...

• Biostimulant results support global food security

  Date：Jan. 11, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Micromix Plant Health Limited

  Drought costs farmers around the world £10bn in crop losses every year – but new trial results show that combining unique biostimulants with micronutrients co...

• Veröffentlichung in The Plant Cell - Possible explanation for more efficient maize growth

  Date：Jan. 11, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Plant researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have investigated the transport of compounds in maize. They focused on the mechanism used to tr...

• Research on synergistic substances that increase root surface area by 80% and improve phosphorus use efficiency by 45%, published on JCR

  Date：Jan. 11, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Shandong Pengbo Biotechnology Co., Ltd

  Dr. Min Zhang and his group from National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources in Shandong Agricultural University,...

• Nature Biotechnology publishes 2Blades Foundation-supported research on wheat resistant to devastating rust fungal diseases

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

  Nature Biotechnology has published research—partially funded by The 2Blades Foundation—on the development of a new wheat variety that shows exceptional resist...

• Chinese scientists uncover gene for rice adaption to low soil nitrogen

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

  Chinese scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have found a gene that plays an important r...

• Understanding disease-induced microbial shifts may reveal new management strategies for crops

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

  Dr. Caroline Roper and first author Dr. Nichole Ginnan at the University of California, Riverside led a large research collaboration that sought to explore the ...

• Researchers discover how a bio-pesticide works against spider mites

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

  Scientists have uncovered why a food-ingredient-based pesticide made from safflower and cottonseed oils is effective against two-spotted spider mites that attac...

• Invisible pest causes more than $1 billion in crop losses by taking control of plants’ natural processes

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

  A newly published study led by researchers from the University of Georgia and several partner institutions reveals a discovery that could lead to new control st...

• Uncovering how plants see blue light

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

  Plants can perceive and react to light across a wide spectrum. New research from Prof. Nitzan Shabek's laboratory in the Department of Plant Biology, College of...

• The puzzle of nonhost resistance: why do pathogens harm some plants but not others?

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

  People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight disease, source of the Irish Potato famine, on potatoes, bu...

• Groups of bacteria can work together to better protect crops and improve their growth

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

  Certain bacteria, known as plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), can improve plant health or protect them from pathogens and are used commercially to help cro...

• Discovery of chemical clue may lead to solving cacao's black pod rot mystery

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

  The finding of relatively high levels of the antimicrobial compound clovamide in the leaves of a disease-resistant strain of cacao has significant implications ...

• IKBFU scientists develop a plant-based technology for obtaining magnetic nanoparticles with antifungal properties

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

  A team of researchers from obtained magnetic nanoparticles using a sweet flag (Acorus calamus). Both the roots and the leaves of this plant have antioxidant, an...

• TPU chemists convert plastic bottle waste into insecticide sorbent

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

  Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University proposed a method to create a sorbent for imidacloprid insecticide removal from water. The sorbent belongs to metal-o...

• A one-stop shop for analyzing algal genomes

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

  You now have one place where you can browse the genetic blueprints of alga. PhycoCosm is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive b...

• Scientists examine citrus hybrids in fight against Citrus Greening Disease

  Date：Dec. 25, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers, working to address the largest problem among citrus growers – Huanglongbing, or HLB- are investing in an old technique by creating new fruit speci...

• Protecting chocolate supplies: Scientists devise biosensor tests to tackle cocoa disease blighting West Africa

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

  Dr. Jacqueline Barnett and Dr. Joel Allainguillaume discuss their work to develop handheld detectors to combat the spread of cacao swollen shoot virus and arres...

• Synergy between biotech and classical control tactics rid US of invasive pest

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

  Genetically engineered cotton and classical pest control tactics combined to rid the United States and Northern Mexico of a devastating pest, according to a new...

• Biotech cotton is key to eliminating devastating pest from US and Mexico

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

  A collaboration between UArizona, cotton growers, and government and industry partners eradicated the pink bollworm – one of the world's most damaging crop pes...

• Breakthrough discovery: How Colorado potato beetles beat pesticides

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

  In a first-of-its-kind study, led by Prof. Yolanda Chen at the University of Vermont (UVM), the research team shows that epigenetic changes, passed to new gener...

• Researchers report root bacteria could help defeat fatal citrus disease

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

  A UC Riverside-led team is looking at tiny underground microorganisms for a way to prevent a huge problem - Huanglongbing, a disease that has decimated citrus o...

• Brazil Embrapa develops insecticide based on Piper aduncum L.

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

  The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is developing a powerful insecticide based on the essential oil of spiked pepper, Piper aduncum L., a ...

• Combining biostimulants with micronutrients could change the plants’ response to stress

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

  Combining unique biostimulants with micronutrients could be the answer to crop losses caused by drought, according to new trial results.

• Florida researchers design corn to handle heat stress

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

  University of Florida researchers used CRISPR technology to move a key protein within the plant to boost heat resistance.

• Finding the best crop traits just got easier

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

  In a future not far away, a drone sweeps over a wheat crop and, by detecting leaf reflectance, sends a signal to the laptop of a crop breeder sitting in the sha...

• Novel and effective technique to control Banana Xanthomonas wilt is suitable for Rwandan agroecology

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

  For the last 10 plus years, the yield and production of this important crop in Rwanda have been severely affected by the Xanthomonas wilt of banana (BXW) diseas...

• Iowa State University researchers find overexpression of a soybean gene might lead to resistance against major pathogens

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

  Any number of different soybean pests can derail a good season. Soybean farmers in Iowa know how devastating they can be, with some causing millions in losses e...