Category: Industry News

Keywords: maize Researchers at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) have developed a maize variety which is rich in both Vitamin A and essential amino acids through the process of plant breeding. Maize, the third most important foodgrain following wheat and rice, is grown throughout the year in India. Popularly known as corn, it is… Continue reading Scientists develop bio-fortified maize to address ‘hidden hunger’

The Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina has approved the commercialization of two varieties of corn and one soybean variety improved by modern biotechnology. One of the corn crops approved incorporates multiple genes to increase the control of the Lepidoptera insects, as well as tolerance to herbicides glyphosate and glufosinate. Another is resistant to the herbicides… Continue reading Argentina approves new corn, soybean GMO seeds

Keywords: vegetable Space missions will increasingly become longer, so in the future, the crew members will need to grow their own food. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to understand how plants respond to microgravity. With this in mind, NASA’s Veg-03 mission aims to check the functioning of a planting hardware called Yeggie.… Continue reading Vegetables grown successfully in the International Space Station

Keywords: rice A lot has been written about the Green Revolution in the late 1960s, which helped prevent mass famine. IR8, the first rice variety released by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the world’s first high-yielding rice variety, sparked the Green Revolution in Asia. This scientific innovation was soon followed by other high-yielding… Continue reading Breakthrough in improving yield potential could continue what the Green Revolution started

Keywords: tomato The Boyce Thompson Institute’s Computational Biology Center (BCBC) in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University has released an annotated genome sequence for Solanum lycopersicoides, a wild relative of tomato. The genome has been assembled to near chromosome scale using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies. The S. lycopersicoides genome sequence and accompanying annotation provide valuable… Continue reading Open-access wild tomato genome offers valuable insights for tomato growers, crop scientists

Keywords: aphids Carmen Blubaugh is an assistant professor in Clemson University’s plant and environmental sciences department. He is involved in a study that addresses how plants mediate interactions between predators and prey. The study took place in organic broccoli fields on 52 mixed-vegetable farms in Washington, Oregon and Idaho over a period of two years.… Continue reading Research suggests plants and predators might work together to control aphids

Nematodes drastically affects the root system of the coffee plant, where it causes necrosis and cracking, reducing the absorption of water and nutrients, affecting the development and production of plants, making them weak and depleted, even resulting in their death, according to portal Global Agrochemicals. The most devastating species is the Meloidogyne incognita. According to… Continue reading Brazilians use silicon to control nematode in coffee

Keywords: rice Health Canada has notified the International Rice Research Institute that it has no objection to the food use of Provitamin A Biofortified Rice Event GR2E (Golden Rice). The Department conducted a comprehensive assessment of this rice event according to its Guidelines for the Safety Assessment of Novel Foods, which are based upon internationally… Continue reading Golden Rice gains health and safety nod from Health Canada

Keywords: New Breeding Technologies , crop 15th Mar, 2018– Prof Mark Tester, a world renowned authority on Food security on Thursday said new technologies of breeding crops would be helpful to convert any crop become salt resistant to control scarcity of food globally. “Through this new technique any crop would be made salt resistant through… Continue reading New Breeding Technologies successful to grow salt resistant crops

The “Measures for the Administration of Food Safety Information Traceability in Fujian Province” will come into effect on March 1. The “Measures” make it clear that Fujian Province will implement “one product and one yard” food safety information retrospectively for 11 types of food. Among them, those who postpone the uploading of false information to… Continue reading Fujian Province will implement “one product and one yard” retroactive management