Researchers from the University of Passo Fundo (UPF), Embrapa and the University of Kansas (KU) have developed an app with the aim to encourage surveillance of the crops and to form a database on wheat blast epidemics in the world. Pic-a-Wheat-Field can be accessed from any cell phone. The app can be downloaded to a… Continue reading Brazil and US scientists create app to monitor wheat diseases worldwide
Wheat is a cool season crop with an optimal daytime growing temperature of 15 C during the critical reproductive stage. Here on the Prairies, we can see 30 C during this stage. Eighty percent of wheat plants exposed to 30 C during a three-day period around anthesis had abnormal anthers, both structurally and functionally. For… Continue reading Breeders help wheat beat the heat
December 21, the Argentina Seed National Institute (INASE) published its Order 228/2018 in the Official Register establishing the use of DNA molecular markers, known as Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP), to verify the identity of soybean varieties inscribed in the INASE’s registers. The INASE is the authority in charge to enforce de Plant Breeders Act, the law… Continue reading A giant step: Argentina uses molecular markers to identified soybean varieties
Forget boots on the ground — the future of crop monitoring could well be the eye in the sky. One of the discussions at last month’s Joint Conference of the Canadian Wheat Symposium and the Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight explored how remote sensing is opening up possibilities for monitoring soil conditions and crop… Continue reading Satellite and drone technologies are changing the face of agronomic research
European law currently requires food packaging to be labelled GM if more than 0.9% of any one ingredient is genetically modified. But Rothamsted’s Professor Johnathan Napier, who has pioneered the GM production of Omega-3 fish oils by camelina plants, said the nature of the changes brought about by the technology would make it almost impossible… Continue reading Gene edited food imports into the European Union will be almost impossible to spot
Tomatoes have been bred to create a wide array of colors, shapes and sizes, but not much commercial work has been done on breeding tomatoes that taste good. That may be because — despite the public’s love of tomatoes — there’s been no commercial demand for a better-tasting fruit and because breeding for taste is… Continue reading Human taste testers and modern genomics: University of Georgia scientists aim to breed better tomatoes one bite at a time
Researchers from CIRAD and INRA recently showed that inactivating a gene, RECQ4, leads to a three-fold increase in recombination in crops such as rice, pea and tomato. The gene inhibits the exchange of genetic material via recombination (crossover) during the sexual reproduction process in crops. This discovery, published in the journal Nature Plants on 26 November 2018,… Continue reading Inactivating genes can boost crop genetic diversity
Postdoc Imtiyaz Khanday and Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan with cloned rice plants in a UC Davis greenhouse, December 2018. Khanday, Sundaresan and colleagues have solved the problem of propagating cloned, hybrid plants from seed — a long-sought discovery with big implications for global agriculture. It could make it easier for the world’s poorest farmers to grow… Continue reading Rice plants that reproduce as clones from seed
China on Wednesday made its first major purchases of U.S. soybeans since President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping struck a trade war truce earlier this month, providing some relief to U.S. farmers who have struggled to find buyers for their record-large harvest. Trump told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday the Chinese… Continue reading China renews its purchases of US soybeans
Crop biotechnology – the development of new plant products for food, fodder, and energy – exploits molecular genetic techniques to develop modern varieties to meet growing agricultural challenges. We hear from Dr Caspar Chater, who, together with Prof. Alejandra Covarrubias, was awarded the £200,000 Newton Prize Mexico for their work improving bean drought tolerance in… Continue reading Newton Prize award for biotech drought-tolerant beans
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