Plant Breeding Articles
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Natural Aroma Chemicals Are Taken from Nature, Such As Plants and Animals
Unlike aroma chemicals, which are produced through chemical synthesis, natural aroma chemicals are complex compounds derived from natural resources, including trees, flowers, plants and animals. Their origins can be traced back to the beginning of recorded time. The Egyptians used the tree resins frankincense (olibanum) and myrrh, burned as incense to appease the gods [1]. And the Classic Herbal, ...
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Insecticidal Proteins: A Promising Solution for Pest Control
Pests, such as insects, pose a significant threat to agriculture and public health. Traditional methods of pest control, such as chemical pesticides, have raised concerns about their impact on the environment and human health. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of alternative pest control strategies, and one promising approach is the use of insecticidal ...
By Lifeasible
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The Power of Cytokinin: Unlocking Nature's Secret to Plant Growth and Development
Introduction of Cytokinin Cytokinin is an organic compound that belongs to the cytokinin family. It is widely used in plant physiology and agriculture due to its beneficial effects on plant growth and yield. Cytokinin is a potent growth hormone and is commonly used in plant tissue culture, induction of cell division and shoot proliferation, plant regeneration, and in vitro production of plant ...
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Scientists Uncover Secrets of Plant Regeneration
Japanese researchers have discovered that the WOX13 gene negatively controls the fate of plant cell regeneration and affects the efficiency of plant stem regeneration. Plants possess the unique ability to regenerate completely from a somatic cell, that is, a normal cell that normally does not participate in reproduction. This process involves the de novo (or new) formation of a shoot apical ...
By Lifeasible
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New Method Provides Vital Information for Plant Breeding
Plants exhibit enormous variation in traits relevant to breeding, such as plant height, yield, and resistance to insect pests. One of the greatest challenges in modern plant research is determining which differences in genetic information cause such changes. Recently, researchers at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany and the Carnegie Institution of Science in the United States have ...
By Lifeasible
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Ancient roots of wheat virus resistance
The DNA sequence of a gene responsible for resistance to a devastating virus in wheat has been discovered, providing important clues for managing more resistant crops and maintaining a healthy food supply. Wheat crops in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa are regularly damaged by wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV), and there is a high demand for wheat varieties or cultivars that are resistant ...
By Lifeasible
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THP9 Can Improve Protein Content and Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency in Maize Seeds
Teosinte is a wild ancestor of maize, and its seed protein content is three times that of most modern maize lines. In a new study, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Normal University tracked the mechanisms responsible for the decline in seed protein content in maize hybrids and inbred strains. Their findings open new avenues for maximizing seed protein content and ...
By Lifeasible
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Plants Activate `Wartime` Protein Production to Fight Invasion
Plants are constantly attacked by bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. When a plant senses a microbial invasion, fundamental changes occur in the chemical soup of proteins inside its cells, the workhorses of life. In a new study published in Cell, Duke University researchers have uncovered a key ingredient in plant cells that reprograms their protein-making machinery to fight disease. Crop ...
By Lifeasible
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A Saline Duper Wheat that Tolerates Higher Salt Concentrations!
In the past few decades, agricultural land has been largely lost, and increased salinity in soils around the world has received much attention. Nowadays, nearly 8% of the world's arable land can no longer be used for crop cultivation due to salt pollution, and more than half of the world's countries are affected. Wheat is the second largest grain grown after corn and grows more on Earth than any ...
By Lifeasible
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Bananas Face Another Extinction Crisis, Can Gene Editing Save Bananas?
Bananas are one of the most popular fruits in the world, however, in fact bananas are at stake and we may no longer eat them at any time. And the source of this crisis is fungal infection, and in 1950, an outbreak of a banana infectious disease with fungal infection called "Panama disease" directly led to the complete extinction of Gros Michel, the most widely planted banana variety at that ...
By Lifeasible
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Rovero Systems BV has a new director - Case Study
Greenhouse pioneer Robert Poljet bids farewell to Rovero! There has been a change of heart at Rovero. Robert Poljet, who led the foil greenhouse builder for more than twelve years, is going to enjoy his retirement. Jacco van Delden is taking over the reins and is ending up in a comfortable position, which was created by Poljet's successful work. His successor wants to continue to grow and ...
By Rovero
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New strategy of "two in one" rapid breeding
Xu Cao's research group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper titled “A two-in-one breeding strategy boosts rapid utilization of wild species and elite cultivars” online in Plant Biotechnology. This study reports a new "two-in-one" rapid breeding strategy, which combines the new de novo domestication breeding method and ...
By Lifeasible
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Researchers Analyze Rapeseed Thioglycoside Transport Mechanism to Assist High-quality Breeding
Recently, Liu Shengyi, a researcher at the Institute of Oil Materials, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Yang Qingyong, a professor at the School of Information, Huazhong Agricultural University, collaborated to develop a new idea/method for the functional identification of multi-copy genes, and based on this identification, the important transporter BnaA06. GTR2 of glucosinolates in ...
By Lifeasible
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A Brief Introduction to Insect Pheromone
Insect pheromones are compounds used to express various information such as aggregation, foraging, mating, and vigilance. Insect pheromones exist in insects in nature, and all insects produce and recognize pheromones. Insect pheromones have been widely used in pest management internationally in recent years as they are green and environmentally friendly, making fruit and vegetable safer. What are ...
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Forest Fires
Introduction Forest covers play a critical part in the existence and sustainability of eco-systems i.e., all the life forms present within the forested area and the ecological roles they ought to play. It not only entails trees but a variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms. There exist strata of jungle biodiversity including species, genetics, ecosystem, landscape, and population, etc. ...
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Indoor agriculture - Can it feed the world?
The future of agriculture is ever-changing… And in the bid to feed the world by 2050 there are a number of key challenges, but also exciting opportunities. With an ever-rising global population, climate change, food security and working out how to produce enough nutrient-dense food for the masses are high priorities for the agriculture sector. These colossal world issues present many ...
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How to Improve Apple Conservation by Reducing Bitter Pit
Bitter Pit is a physiological disorder, linked to a calcium deficiency in apples. Symptoms: dark brown or black lesions, results of the breakdown of the cells under the skin, appear on the skin of the fruit only after harvest. Calcium is not very mobile within the trees. Even though soil and leaves are correctly fed with this element, a deficiency can appear on fruits. This is especially true ...
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Are you lighting for optimum yields?
How do you achieve the highest yields with your lighting system? As we know, increasing light intensity up to a certain species-specific point, results in a corresponding increase in yield. And when light levels are not optimized for production, or the type of crop you are growing, you are going to have slower flowering, poor root development and plant structure, as well as reduced yields. There ...
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How to grow blueberries: Blueberry growing system in hydroponic greenhouse
In recent years, the demand for berries, and more specifically blueberries, has increased. This has led to an increase in surface area and cultivation techniques. Soil is no longer a problem thanks to the existence of optimal substrates for growing blueberries. Of all the berries, blueberries require the most consideration for greenhouse cultivation. We are going to see some of them, as well as ...
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Influence of organic fertilizer production line equipment in present life
With the development of clothing industry, the nuclear products of clothing organic production line equipment are also entering a new stage of development. Organic production equipment plays an important role in the field of clothing industry. With the market demand, it is also pursuing deeper development. Most of the organic fertilizer materials produced by the organic fertilizer production ...
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