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A charcoal-rich product called biochar could boost agricultural yields and control pollution. Scientists are putting the trendy substance to the test.
View ArticleAgrochemical control of plant water use using engineered abscisic acid receptors
Rising temperatures and lessening fresh water supplies are threatening agricultural productivity and have motivated efforts to improve plant water use and drought tolerance. During water deficit, plants
View ArticleGuidelines for the implementation of international treaty on plant genetic...
Ministry of Environment & Forest and Climate Change vide its notification No. S.O. 3232 dated 17.12.2014 has, in consultation with the National Biodiversity Authority, declared that the Department of
View ArticlePunjab Seed Corporation launches hybrid maize seed
Provincial Minister for Agriculture Dr Farrukh Javed has said that the high yielding hybrid maize seed, jointly evolved by the breeders of Maize & Millet Research Institute Sahiwal and the experts...
View ArticleKarnataka to breed climate change-resistant millets
The Karnataka government will soon launch a consortium to breed improved millets that can withstand prolonged heat and cold conditions, in its ongoing effort to increase productivity of highly nutritious
View ArticleICAR developing new non-GM soybean genotypes high in oleic acid
Derived oils with high oleic acids are free from trans fatty acids that pose high risk of heart ailments The Directorate of Soybean Research (DSR) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
View ArticleBRRI-dhan 63 raises optimism among farmers, scientists
Sherpur, Jun 11 (UNB)-Production of BRRI-dhan 63, a fine quality high-yielding rice variety newly developed by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), has raised great optimism among farmers in Sherpur
View ArticleAgricultural growth in West Africa: market and policy drivers
West Africa has unprecedented opportunities for agricultural growth, but making the most of them will require more effective regional integration, says a new report by the African Development Bank (AfDB),
View ArticleGenome-environment associations in sorghum landraces predict adaptive traits
Improving environmental adaptation in crops is essential for food security under global change, but phenotyping adaptive traits remains a major bottleneck. If associations between single-nucleotide...
View ArticleNew GM cereal crop produces fish oil in its seeds
A genetically-modified cereal crop that produces fish oil in its seeds has been grown successfully for the first time in Britain, scientists have announced. Up to 15 per cent of the oil in the seeds
View ArticleNew GM rice 'can cut greenhouse emission'
FUZHOU - Scientists from China, Sweden and the United States have developed a high-yielding rice that can reduce methane emissions, a major greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, from paddies. By...
View ArticleThe rice immune receptor XA21 recognizes a tyrosine-sulfated protein from a...
Surveillance of the extracellular environment by immune receptors is of central importance to eukaryotic survival. The rice receptor kinase XA21, which confers robust resistance to most strains of the
View ArticleSugarcane Hybrid Created to Grow at Colder Temperatures
Imagine sugarcane that doesn't have to be grown in the south. Researchers may have managed just that. They've developed chill-tolerant hybrid sugarcane that can grow at lower temperatures. Researchers
View ArticleDA eyes P1.4 B for agricultural research
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has increased by almost six times the proposed budget of its agricultural research agency in 2016 to push for the promotion of science-based agricultural development
View ArticleHeat-resistant gene could help crops cope with global warming, scientists say
Shanghai scientists have found a gene that provides crops with a higher resistance to heat, offering a potential boon to farmers coping with reduced yields in the face of global warming. The discovery,
View ArticleResearch institutions to develop improved cereal varieties
Two research institutions are conducting research into developing crop varieties with useful biological traits that will not only be high-yielding but also tolerant to pests, diseases and drought. Some
View ArticleMaths helps prepare for new diseases
An invasive pathogen has affected thousands of hectares of olive plantations in Puglia, southern Italy Researchers have developed a way to help determine the level of surveillance required to detect the
View ArticleClimate and Food Grains: New Wheat Gene Info Will Increase Adaptability
Researchers from the University of California-Davis recently found a fourth gene that determines how wheat plants flower after experiencing a freeze. Having the key to this process, vernalization, could
View ArticleFine mapping of consistent quantitative trait loci for yield under drought...
Drought stress is a serious constraint, especially in rainfed rice production, and breeding for drought tolerance by selection based on yield under stress, though effective, is slow. Mapping quantitative
View ArticleKenya Crop Experts Win Prestigious Award
A team of crop experts from a Kenya research organization has been awarded for their input in fighting wheat rust. The three Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) experts were
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