Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

CROPGRIDS: A global geo-referenced dataset of 173 crops circa 2020. It’s great to finally know where crops are grown. Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. If only they had had this analytical framework when they thought of Bt crops. Thanks, satellites!

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Agwired

JUNE 26, 2024

Rice has enjoyed a long career in sales and marketing in the crop protection, seed genetics, biotechnology and application technology sectors. He holds a B.S.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 7, 2023

L-R: Dan Basse, Eric Boeck, Tom Schuler, Jagresh Rana, Tim Glenn Representatives from the seed industry’s four largest companies sat down with Ag Resource Company’s Dan Basse at the American Seed Trade Association Field Crop Seed Convention Tuesday to discuss what the future of the seed industry may hold.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

This rule will disproportionally stifle innovation by publicly supported federal and academic plant breeders and smaller plant breeding companies, inhibiting their development of new varieties, particularly of specialty and other smaller acreage crops. These characteristics have been sought after by plant breeders for centuries.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2024

USDA, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a new web-based tool on the Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation for companies that develop microbial biotechnology products. Millborn Seeds, Inc. , Nutrien Ag Solutions, Inc.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it. parasitism in major cereal crops for enhanced crop production and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review. Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences for traits of improved varieties: Informing demand-oriented crop breeding in Tanzania.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Climate-resilient crops: Lessons from xerophytes. Breeding for Na+ exclusion to improve salinity tolerance in crops has compromised their drought tolerance, but both tolerances are down to more gene copies in key families when comparing species. Innovation and Technological Mismatch: Experimental Evidence from Improved Crop Seeds.

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Agwired

MAY 10, 2024

In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14081, “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology.

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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

The two awards recognize biotechnology leaders who are driving cutting-edge breakthroughs in agricultural, environmental, and industrial biotechnology. Nemasphere is the first and only biotechnology trait for SCN, the number one yield-robbing pest in soybeans in the United States. 3-5 in Houston, Texas.

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Agwired

MAY 16, 2024

In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14081, “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

food and agricultural goods, including grains, oilseeds, feed, meat and dairy products, produce, and other specialty crops. Those criteria should include but not be limited to the following: • Maintain reasonable and equitable market access to U.S. Refrain from excessive domestic agricultural subsidies that decrease U.S. market access.

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Food Tank

MAY 6, 2024

Climate change worsens the issue by reducing the micronutrient content of staple food crops that make up the bulk of most diets globally. Increase intake of micronutrient-rich unrefined plant-based foods , including dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, and seeds. Biofortify staple food crops.

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 is executing a program to develop and commercialize spring and winter Camelina varieties with stacked herbicide traits to achieve large acreage adoption of the crop in North America. Group 2 herbicides are commonly used to manage weeds in cereal and other crop rotations and can persist in the soil for months following use.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Some will have challenges as they seek operating credit for the 2025 crop year. Since the beginning of the year, the harvest price of major crops traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange have fallen by an average of 21% while total production costs remain near record levels. USDA forecasts the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The chair of the House of Commons’ agriculture committee has introduced a private member’s bill aimed at speeding up regulatory approvals of new seed genetics, feed products, and crop protection products for Canadian farmers. Read More

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 14, 2023

Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic resource to accelerate orphan crop lablab breeding. Two domestication “events,” with the 2-seeded form originating in Ethiopia. NW India is a centre of diversity.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. Microbes can share genetic material with each other far more readily than crops and can travel great distances on the wind. And BASF sells a 2.0 Take BASF’s 2.0

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to investigate the climate change mitigation potential of switchgrass cropping systems. A new article researched and co-authored by American Soybean Association staff explores how farmers can potentially benefit from new biotechnology innovations.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Nayak is recognized for her innovative approach to engaging farmers in demand-driven rice seed systems, from testing and deployment to access and adoption of climate-resilient and nutritious rice varieties. American Seed Trade Association is excited to welcome Martha Malapi as Director, Seed Health & Trade.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 28, 2024

Which crop biodiversity is used by the food industry throughout the world? A first evidence for legume species. Mainly soy, alas. Which is bad because… Diversified agriculture leads to diversified diets: panel data evidence from Bangladesh.

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Agwired

MARCH 29, 2024

billion, up 5 percent driven by Syngenta Crop Protection and by strong growth of Syngenta Group China. Syngenta Crop Protection sales in FY 2023 experienced a modest 5 percent decrease in comparison to the previous year, totaling $15.5 billion compared to last year and the seeds business grew 2 percent to $4.8 billion, down $1.2

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Genetically modified crops (GMO) are also cross-bred, but instead of pollen, foreign DNA is introduced into the plant’s genome to create a new crop with desired characteristics such as sweeter-tasting fruit or longer-lasting color. The seed has been synthetically altered.” CRISPR editing of seeds.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Crop species diversity: A key strategy for sustainable food system transformation and climate resilience. The Role of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces of Forage Legumes in Pre-Breeding as a Response to Climate Change. Association study of crude seed protein and fat concentration in a USDA pea diversity panel. Or are there?

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Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

Canada has finally decided on how crop varieties developed with gene-editing technology will be handled in the registration and approval process. Announced last week, crops developed using the technique will not be considered a GMO or “novel” and therefore will have a more streamlined path to approval. Read More

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Coffee plants usually take three to four years to produce their first yield, making the crop a gamble at startup, but rising global demand may provide the incentive. Coffee worldwide is increasingly grown alongside other crops, such as avocados, plantains, cacao, sugarcane, nuts, citrus, and spices. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. When it came time for our [oyster seed] orders to come in, the hatchery said, ‘We had a complete crash. That’s not right.” seaweed industry.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 8, 2024

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s third and final ruling announced Friday on gene-editing for crop variety development clears the path for this precise, cost-effective plant breeding tool to be used in Canada. Does this mean farmers will have access to new drought-resistant or nitrogen-efficient varieties for next year?

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Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

and Canadian challenge is to defend the interests of the biotechnology industry. and Canada want to force Mexico to open its market to all genetically modified foods and seeds. To add to these results, a number of animal feeding trials also find that Bt toxins and GM Bt crops could have toxic effects on mammals.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Agrela Ecosystems , a startup launched by Nadia Shakoor, PhD, principal investigator, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced the pilot launch of its flagship product, PheNode.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

It alleges that Mexico’s decree constitutes a trade violation that infringes on the superseding rights of US farmers and biotechnology companies. What happens is this: The genetic code of Bt seeds are programmed to produce toxins that attack the stomach linings of crop-munching caterpillars. But those days have ended.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Crop-to-wild gene flow in wild coffee species: the case of Coffea canephora in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Time to re-synthesize the crop, I say. Beyond the Orthodoxy: An Overview of the Potential of ‘Other’ Coffee Species for Crop Use and their Associated Challenges.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Chilton led the team of Syngenta researchers that produced the first transgenic plant and pioneered plant biotechnology, discovering novel methods to improve plants’ ability to control pests and withstand extreme conditions. This new product expands our rice portfolio, offering an alternative to our well-established BUTTE Herbicide.</li.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

Surrounding yourself with exceptional people and building a winning team. It’s a recipe for success that Saskatchewan-born Lorne Hepworth has followed through three successful careers and now an appointment as Member of the Order of Canada.

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