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Nov 16

‘Farmer-Researchers’ Join Front Line in Testing Crops

By Isabel Agriculture, News

Farmers are becoming more involved than ever in the work of developing new, sustainable crop varieties, with a recent Alliance study showing how a “citizen science” approach for on-farm experimentation called tricot, generated agricultural data via local organizations in Central…

Nov 10

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Scientists uncover millet genotype-microbiota interaction insights to enhance crop growth and yield

By Isabel Agriculture, News

Foxtail millet, Setaria italica, is one of the oldest and more resilient crops worldwide. Compared to rice and wheat, millet has excellent climate resilience and requires less fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation than mainstream cereals. In addition, millet-based foods are nutritionally superior…

Nov 08

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Genetic engineering of chickpea to understand the mystery behind biochemical regulation in flower and seed coat colour of desi and kabuli genotypes

By Isabel Agriculture, Blog, ECRi, Plant Science, Post

Flower and seed coat colour are important agronomic traits in chickpea that influence consumer preference. Based on their cultivation globally, this legume crop is categorized as “desi” or “kabuli”. Seeds of desi-type chickpeas are generally dark brown and angular with…

Nov 03

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Documenting and making available the world’s crop diversity

By Isabel Agriculture, Fruits and Vegetables, News, Plant Science

Genebanks play an important role in the long-term conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Out of 1,800 genebank collections worldwide, more than 600 are in Europe. This vast array of crop diversity can be exploited to make…

Oct 31

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Ethanol helps plants better tolerate heat stress

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

Pre-treatment with ethanol activates molecular processes that could allow crops to tolerate a warming world. A dose of ethanol, better known as common alcohol, can enable plants to withstand heat stress that might otherwise kill them, biologists have found. This…

Oct 25

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Multiplex gene editing rapidly customizes tomato cultivars with different fruit colors

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

A research group has developed a rapid breeding strategy to generate tomato lines with different colored fruits from red-fruited materials by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiplex gene editing.

Oct 24

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Scientists unlock the code to breed better peas

By Isabel Agriculture, Fruits and Vegetables, News

An international team of researchers has discovered exactly how peas have evolved and revealed the traits breeders can leverage to make them even better.

Oct 20

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If not, Winter: How a super-charged “Speed Vernalization” protocol accelerates flowering in winter cereals

By Isabel Agriculture, Blog, ECRi, Plant Science, Post

As days grow colder and shorter, and many of us find ourselves entrenched in winter, you wouldn’t be mistaken for feeling a noticeable reduction in activity around you. However, in certain crops such as winter wheat and barley, this cold…

Oct 17

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Heated plot experiments reveal link between warmer early winters and lower crop yields

By Isabel Agriculture, News

Innovative experiments using temperature-controlled field plots have helped to explain the link between early winter temperatures and yield in some of our most marketable arable crops.

Oct 13

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New banana disease is spreading and poses a threat to Africa’s food security

By Isabel Agriculture, Fruits and Vegetables, News, Plant Science

A new banana fungus is rapidly spreading across the globe. It hit Africa a decade ago, and now spreads, a genetic study reveals. They state that the disease poses a threat to Africa’s food security.

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‘Farmer-Researchers’ Join Front Line in Testing Crops

Scientists uncover millet genotype-microbiota interaction insights to enhance crop growth and yield

Genetic engineering of chickpea to understand the mystery behind biochemical regulation in flower and seed coat colour of desi and kabuli genotypes

Documenting and making available the world’s crop diversity

Ethanol helps plants better tolerate heat stress

Multiplex gene editing rapidly customizes tomato cultivars with different fruit colors

Scientists unlock the code to breed better peas

If not, Winter: How a super-charged “Speed Vernalization” protocol accelerates flowering in winter cereals

Heated plot experiments reveal link between warmer early winters and lower crop yields

New banana disease is spreading and poses a threat to Africa’s food security

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