Category: Industry News

Keywords: rice Scientists successfully employed mutagenesis to identify the gene that causes hybrid sterility in rice, which is a major reproductive barrier between species. Their success is expected to help elucidate the genetic basis of interspecific hybrid sterility, which is important not only for understanding the evolutionary biology of speciation, but also for improving crops… Continue reading Mutation in single rice gene cancels interspecific hybrid sterilityqrcode

Recently, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture: In 2017, the overall pass rate of routine quality and safety monitoring of agricultural products in the country reached 97.8%, an increase of 0.3 percentage point as compared with the same period of last year. The quality and safety of agricultural products maintained a steady and… Continue reading China’s agricultural product quality and safety pass rate of 97.8%

Keywords: canola A new app to assist canola growers to manage the risk of the fungal disease Sclerotinia stem rot is being developed, which incorporates new research to help determine when crops are susceptible to infection. Sclerotinia is currently the most unpredictable disease that threatens Western Australian canola crops, which, with suitable conditions, can affect up… Continue reading Western Australia – App being developed to improve canola disease management

Keywords: wheat Multiple tube-like reproductive structures (aecia) of stem rust protruding from Berberis vulgaris. SEM photography by Kim Findlay, John Innes CentreThis information has been adapted from a news release issued by the John Innes Centre. Wheat stem rust resulted in small disease outbreaks in Western Europe recently. The industry has been advised to work… Continue reading Wheat stem rust outbreaks in Europe fuel industry collaboration

Keywords: wheat Images of wheat flower opening caused by swelling of unfertilized ovary. Left panel represents closed flower of fertile plant with developing grain encased. Right panel illustrates flower opening in male sterile plant by radial expansion of unfertilized ovary, separating palea and lemma. New research at The University of Adelaide Waite campus has found… Continue reading Open flower for wheat seed production

When you enter the office of Soybean Research Institute of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, you can see the sign of “Biosafety” hangs on the doors of many laboratories. The personnel entering these laboratories need to sign to ensure that they do not touch the experimental materials here Here is the place for genetically modified… Continue reading Brazil manages genetically modified soybeans strictly

Keywords: plant When a plant goes into defense mode in order to protect itself against harsh weather or disease, that’s good for the plant, but bad for the farmer growing the plant. Bad because when a plant acts to defend itself, it turns off its growth mechanism. But now researchers at Michigan State University are… Continue reading How plants balance defense, growth tactics

Keywords: rice In Summary RiceMAPP involves use of production knowledge and technologies in water management and crop care to increase harvest. Farmers at the Mwea Irrigation Scheme can now attain maximum yields and earn profits. Jica’s Rice-based and Market-oriented Agriculture Promotion Project (RiceMAPP) has strove to alleviate these challenges through its innovative concepts. Line planting… Continue reading New technique boosting rice production in Mwea, Kenya

Recently, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the country’s grain output has remained at 1.2 trillion kilos for five consecutive years since 2013, indicating that grain production capacity has reached a new level steadily.   According to the introduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has… Continue reading China’s grain output has steadily risen to 1.2 trillion kilograms, and its high-quality development has become the main direction of agriculture

Keywords: cotton More than 1,000 growers planted 452,000 ha of cotton across Australia’s cotton growing regions this season. With more than 95% of the crop planted to Monsanto’s Bollgard® 3 varieties, growers have embraced the flexibility the technology gives to the industry. The new extended planting window has seen cotton planted as late as December… Continue reading Bollgard 3 Cotton continues to provide flexibility and value to Australian farmers