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Creating chicory plants without bitter compounds

Chicory is a beautiful plant with blue flowers, but the interesting part is in the ground: the chicory taproots are a source of inulin, a natural sweetener that is used in bread and dairy products and as dietary fibre for…

Isabel20/10/2021

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Scientists developed a high-yielding, bio-fortified, drought-tolerant desi chickpea variety

Recently, a group of scientists, successfully developed a new high-yielding transgenic desi chickpea variety. For that, they used the chickpea cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase gene expressed under the chickpea WRKY31 gene promoter.

Isabel18/10/2021

Agriculture News Plant Science

Tracking wild peanut genes to improve crop resilience

Plant breeders around the globe have worked for decades to create peanut varieties that can fight off fungal diseases, and several have been successful. Now DNA detectives show how important peanut seed exchange is to food security.

Isabel15/10/2021

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Climate change, population growth and stressed plants: Feeding the world in the 21st century

New research sheds fresh light on plant chloroplasts, and the proteins inside them. The regulation of chloroplast proteins is important for plant development and stress acclimation and is increasingly significant as plants - including our staple crops, wheat, rice, barley…

Isabel14/10/2021

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A preliminary framework for better urban agroforestry

Today’s cities don’t have walls for protection like ancient ones, but they are separate from less urban and rural land. Most goods that city-dwellers purchase are brought in from rural farms and manufacturers. There is an active community of urban…

Isabel13/10/2021

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Creating chicory plants without bitter compounds

Scientists developed a high-yielding, bio-fortified, drought-tolerant desi chickpea variety

Tracking wild peanut genes to improve crop resilience

Climate change, population growth and stressed plants: Feeding the world in the 21st century

A preliminary framework for better urban agroforestry

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