crop improvement News
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Scientific publication in Nature Biotech including WIWAM xy
Although drought tolerance is a central concern of plant research, the translatability for crop improvement is relatively low. Here we report on a major contributing factor to this lack of success. Drought tolerance is predominately scored based on an improved survival rate under lethal conditions that, as demonstrated… Read ...
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CRISPR4CROPS, CRISPR/Cas9 Technology implementation for improved resistance to Abiotic Stress in cereals
The European project CRISPR4CROPS has recently finished. In the frame of H2020 Programme, in particular, in the INNOSUP-02-2016 Call, Iden Biotechnology has taken the first steps to the implementation of CRISPR technology in maize. The implementation of the use of the gene editing techniques requires highly skilled staff. The overall proposal objective was to overcome the barriers to the ...
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A Letter from the Hawaii Agricultural Foundation and the Hawai`i Farm Bureau
As you know, recent cases of rat lungworm disease (RLWD) has garnered substantial public interest, and unfortunately, inaccurate and fearful misconceptions about the safety of locally grown and prepared foods. In response to numerous questions and requests for help, our organizations have been actively working with state agencies and the business community to support Hawaii's local food industry. ...
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And there`s a potato wearing a cowboy hat
Three Minnesota teens develop a curriculum to teach 3rd- to 5th-graders the science and value of GMO ...
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HCIA Annual Meeting 2018
Mahalo to all who attended our 2018 HCIA annual meeting held May 23 at the Honolulu Country Club! This year’s meeting theme was “Sharing the Promise, Potential and Progress of Our Industry.” That theme represents not just our member HCIA companies, but of all those involved in Hawaii’s agricultural industry. We had several exciting speakers at our annual meeting, along ...
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Underlying motives fuel pesticide bills
It’s that time of year again in the Legislature. In the session that’s just a couple of weeks old, 29 pesticide-related bills have been introduced, but many use stealth techniques to attack the cultivation of genetically engineered crops in addition to further restricting pesticide. That’s one less than during the last session, though it’s not really progress. Some of ...
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Why the GM Papaya Story iss Personal for this Hawaii Local
As part of GMO Answers’ GPS on GMOs series, GMO Answers is highlighting some of science and agriculture’s revolutionary female leaders and their research in specific parts of the world. The following post is the second installment of this series and highlights Joni Kamiya, who shares how biotechnology saved her family’s papaya farm. Read the full article. ...
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New edition of crops & chemicals congress in the United States where Iden Biotechnology participates as a speaker
As every year, the Crops & Chemicals USA congress will take place from July 23 to 25 in the city of Raleigh, capital of North Carolina. This event is focused on the biostimulant products and plant protection sector. Along 3 days, representatives of the most relevant companies and institutions at an international level of agrobiological sector will meet: professional associations, ...
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Hawaii Agriculture Foundation’s restaurant initiative supports education, sustainability
Helping Hawaii’s future farmers is as easy as picking up a menu. The fifth annual Localicious Hawaii is celebrating the role restaurants play in supporting local agriculture in a month-long dining out promotion that started March 1. A record 262 restaurants are participating in “Localicious,” the state’s largest restaurant initiative. During the campaign that coincides ...
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Farm to school program highlights local produce
Bananas are being shipped in from other islands for inclusion in public school students’ lunches. w Editor’s note: This is the entirety of an article printed in TGI’s Jan. 17 Wellness section, as much of the original article was unreadable due to formatting errors. LIHUE — Local bananas are being showcased in schools this month through the state Department of ...
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Innovations in agriculture can help Hawaii farmers thrive
As we come together this month to celebrate the importance of agriculture on National Ag Day, March 20, it is important to take stock of Hawaii’s vital contributions to the way we grow, sell and consume food, and where the industry will take us next. Read ...
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Iowa Corn Promotion Board and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Announce Research Cooperation
The Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB) and The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center), in St. Louis, Missouri, have announced a formal research cooperation to explore opportunities for innovation in nutrient utilization for Iowa’s corn farmers. The research cooperation has a goal of developing traits that will be used to improve farmer productivity and manage nutrients ...
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Sweeper (Sweet pepper harvesting robot) tested in greenhouse Belgium
In the past week the Sweeper team has performed tests with their harvest robot in the greenhouse of partner Research Station for Vegetable Production at Sint Katelijne-Waver in Belgium. The data of the tests will be used for improving the vision algorithms for detecting ripe fruits and approach path of the robot. The goal of the Sweeper project is to develop a robotic harvesting system for ...
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Insect diversity improves crop pollination
The decline in numbers of wild bees has caused concern regarding falling levels of pollination for important agricultural crops. Researchers have now demonstrated that the diversity of the pollinator community can significantly affect pollination. Insect pollination is a vital ecosystem service; a large proportion of the human diet either directly or indirectly depends on animal-based ...
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India takes to new flood-tolerant rice
A new flood-resistant rice variety developed at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines is proving to be popular in the flood-prone areas of India and Bangladesh. In India, since release in August 2009, more than 100,000 farmers have received seeds of the ‘Swarna-sub1’ variety and it is now being grown over 12 million hectares, the IRRI said in a press ...
By SciDev.Net
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GODAN Action - Enabling practical engagement with open data in agriculture and nutrition
As the world’s population grows, global demand for food is predicted to nearly double. The number of people at risk of hunger in the developing world is estimated to grow to more than a billion people by 2050. New data-driven solutions in agriculture and nutrition are increasingly being seen as a way to tackle this challenge. GODAN Action is a three-and-a-half-year programme led by Alterra ...
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Maize breeders benefit from using drones
Using drone technology could cut labour and costs spent in collecting data for maize breeding by at least ten per cent, preliminary findings of a project shows. With increased demand for better seeds to adapt to changing climate, breeders have turned to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) also known as drones for precise gathering of data from the field to enable more efficient maize breeding in ...
By SciDev.Net
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CSIRO and Chinese academy of sciences join forces
Scientists from CSIRO and CAS will meet in Australia next week to discuss and plan for future research collaborations, with a focus on rice and wheat, which along with corn make up the three most widely grown food crops in the world. Leading CSIRO and CAS researchers in the area of plant genomics will share their latest research findings and also map out the areas where future joint research ...
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Using rotation crops to improve soil quality
Soil quality issues are being researched within two crop rotation experiments that started in 1994 at Narrabri. They compare several crop rotations that include or exclude legume phases. The data presented here relate to the most recent 2-year cycles of these experiments. Following cotton harvest at the end of the previous cycle, rotation crops are sown (winter cereal, faba beans (grain) or vetch ...
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Gas sensing for optimal Marijuana crop growth for medical use
With a greater global acceptance of medical marijuana, the demand for crops has grown exponentially with a strong motivation towards improving crop yields. For best results, crops benefit from the careful control of temperature, lighting, nutrients and carbon dioxide (CO2). In this article, we find out how Edinburgh Sensors gas sensors are used for measuring CO2 whilst allowing extra CO2 to be ...
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