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Dec 20

Breeding Plants With Genes From One Parent

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research shows the underlying mechanism behind eliminating half the genome and could make for easier and more rapid breeding of crop plants with desirable traits…

Dec 10

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Scientists have developed new gene-edited barley that could better your beer

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

After a spell of unexpected rain, before the harvest season, a farmer may be faced with the unpredictable problem of untimely sprouting of barley. Sprouted barley fetches considerably low market prices and poses an economic burden on farmers and corporations…

Dec 08

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Latin American rice breeding gets a boost from genomic tools

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

How do you like your rice? Sticky, fluffy, brown, or white? These qualities, in addition to grain length, width, appearance, and other traits, are hugely important predictors of rice sales and consumption worldwide. And region matters. Rice preferences in Latin…

Dec 03

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Comparing photosynthetic differences between wild and domesticated rice

By Isabel Agriculture, News, Plant Science

Millions of people in Asia are dependent on rice as a food source. Believed to have been domesticated as early as 6000 BCE, rice is an important source of calories globally. In a new study, researchers compared domesticated rice to its…

Dec 01

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A sequence change in a single protein allowed a tomato virus to become a global crop pandemic

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

disease has emerged, threatening tomato production worldwide. This is caused by the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), a member of a devastating group of plant viruses called tobamoviruses. ToBRFV overcomes all known tobamovirus resistance in tomato, including the one…

Nov 26

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How bread wheat got its gluten: Tracing the impact of a long-lost relative on modern bread wheat

By Isabel Agriculture, KAUST, News, Plant Science

Genetic detective work has uncovered an obscure ancestor of modern bread wheat, in a finding similar to uncovering a famous long-lost relative through DNA analysis in humans. Researchers have sequenced the DNA from 242 unique accessions of Aegilops tauschii gathered over decades from…

Nov 22

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The introduction of perennial plants among rainfed almond trees helps to mitigate climate change

By Isabel Agriculture, News

The potential of intercropping with perennial plants in woody systems to mitigate climate change through soil carbon sequestration could increase in the long term, once the new crops are fully developed and stabilised. The ongoing nature of the research would…

Nov 17

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Fleshy Fruits Are More Common in Tropics: Phylogenic Analysis

By Isabel Fruits and Vegetables, News, Plant Science

Fruits can be dichotomously classified as fleshy or dry. Although many factors have been proposed to explain the pattern that the fleshy-fruited species occur with deceasing latitude and altitude, the relative importance of these factors has not yet been resolved. Researchers…

Nov 11

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Probing plant infections

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

Sometimes the pathogens that infect plants also affect people—through our pocketbooks. Which is why plant pathologist spend a lot of time studying microbes that infect tomatoes, peppers and strawberries.

Nov 10

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Delicious discoveries: Scientists just described a new onion species from the Himalaya

By Isabel Botany, Fruits and Vegetables, News

The genus Allium contains about 1,100 species worldwide, including many staple foods like onion, garlic, scallion, shallot and chives. Even though this group of vegetables has been making appearances at family dinners for centuries, it turns out that it is a long…

Agriculture

Breeding Plants With Genes From One Parent

Scientists have developed new gene-edited barley that could better your beer

Latin American rice breeding gets a boost from genomic tools

Comparing photosynthetic differences between wild and domesticated rice

A sequence change in a single protein allowed a tomato virus to become a global crop pandemic

How bread wheat got its gluten: Tracing the impact of a long-lost relative on modern bread wheat

The introduction of perennial plants among rainfed almond trees helps to mitigate climate change

Fleshy Fruits Are More Common in Tropics: Phylogenic Analysis

Probing plant infections

Delicious discoveries: Scientists just described a new onion species from the Himalaya

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