Category: Industry News

Keywords: Broccoli , Heat-tolerant , USA Broccoli is becoming more popular with the American consumer. It provides plenty of nutrients in the diet. But it isn’t easy getting this cool-weather vegetable to your table. Broccoli producers face many factors that impede getting their crop to market. They include unexpected temperature fluctuations and excessive heat. Heat stress… Continue reading Heat-tolerant broccoli for the future

Keywords: India , Drought-resistant rice Even as the government remains firm on not allowing paddy to be grown in Karnataka’s rice bowl Mandya fearing over-utilization of water from the Cauvery basin, a lesser-known variety of rice which doesn’t consume much water seems to be struggling to create a market. Aerobic rice needs only half the water… Continue reading India: Drought-resistant rice variety struggles to find any takers

The homogenization of agricultural products is serious, the logistics construction is lagging behind, the rural network business personnel lack, rural network operators infrastructure construction lag … … recently held in the “2017 to promote agriculture and agriculture innovation and development forum and the Chinese network” three rural research “column on the line On, China Network… Continue reading Agricultural products into the city is still difficult

Keywords: Corn , DNA replication , North Carolina State University DNA replication is among life’s most important processes. It provids a way for an organism’s genetic material to be reproduced so it can be passed from cell to cell. For the first time, scientists have characterized that process for an entire plant genome. William Thompson is… Continue reading Scientists unravel mysteries of DNA replication in corn

Keywords: Alta Seeds , sugarcane , aphid tolerance Alta Seeds is the premium seed brand of Advanta Seeds. It announces its new lineup of Aphix™ grain sorghum hybrids. The new lineup has superior performance and the highest level of sugarcane aphid tolerance. Aphix™ grain sorghum hybrids deliver low sugarcane aphid damage scores in testing by the… Continue reading Alta Seeds introduces new Aphix™ lineup with elite sugarcane aphid tolerance

Keywords: UAV , agricultural , drone Agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are helping to improve the efficiency of disease and pest control in China’s agricultural industry. A skills competition for UAV and drone operation was held in Jianbei town, Changsha county in China, on Sept 14. It aimed at popularizing state-of-the-art agricultural devices. Various operators showed… Continue reading UAV bolsters agricultural industry in China

Autumn season, and then welcome harvest. Hebei Province, now the autumn grain has entered the harvest period, all over the country are gradually sickle harvest. According to the Provincial Agricultural Commission agricultural scheduling, this year the province’s autumn grain sown area of more than 60 million mu, more than the previous year to expand. If… Continue reading Anhui Province autumn grain planting area of more than 60 million mu this year

Keywords: Dow AgroSciences , research , soybean gene Through a collaborative project, Purdue University and Dow AgroSciences researchers have discovered a novel soybean gene. The gene provides resistance to a devastating and costly fungal disease. The team of Dow AgroSciences and Purdue researchers screened a wide variety of soybean genetic material using a number of approaches.… Continue reading Purdue University and Dow AgroSciences discover new soybean gene

On the evening of September 15, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Grain Bureau, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the People’s Bank of China and the China Banking Regulatory Commission jointly issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job of Maize and Soybeans in Northeast China in 2017 ” According… Continue reading Corn soybean implementation of the market acquisition and subsidy mechanism

Keywords: RNA, heat, drought tolerance Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have discovered a ribonucleic acid, or RNA. That RNA can increase the thale cress plant’s resistance to stress from drought and salt. The discovery could help illuminate a new pathway to engineering drought- and salt-tolerant plants, including food crops, said Dr. Liming Xiong, AgriLife Research… Continue reading RNA discovery could help boost plant heat, drought tolerance