CropsIRRI and Nottingham team up to breed rice that keeps yielding in the heat
The BBSRC-funded Temp-Resist Rice project will search traditional varieties and wild relatives for traits that protect pollen and grain formation at high temperatures.
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AgrotechPlantArcBio's drought-tolerance genes more than double cob weight in a field trial
The Israeli gene-discovery firm says corn carrying its lead genes outperformed controls under both normal irrigation and severe drought across 200 plots.
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Heat-tolerant lentils bred with AI and speed breeding reach field trials in Australia
About 200 lines from a GRDC-funded Agriculture Victoria project are being tested at three main sites, with 50 more at hotter satellite sites.
CropsEurope's processing-potato heartland harvests almost a quarter less
DCA Market Intelligence puts the 2026 crop in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany at about 20.8 million tonnes after acreage cuts and a hot, dry season.
AgrotechJohn Innes scientists engineer cereal immune receptors against blast fungus
A UK-Japan team showed how a new class of wheat receptors lures blast-fungus effectors, and bioengineered them to recognise the pathogen on both wheat and barley.
AgrotechBrazil approves GM microbes in bioreactors to make biological crop protection
CTNBio has for the first time cleared genetically modified microorganisms for producing biocontrol products, granted to Bioma of the Cogny group, with soybean, corn and sugarcane the first targets.
FruitsFlorida growers plant CRISPR-edited rootstock against citrus greening as the state's crop shrinks from 300 million boxes to 15 million
Tampa-based Soilcea's CarriCea T1 rootstock, approved by the EPA this year, keeps a tree's immune system working; in a test field the edited trees are taller and greener, but the fruit is years away.
CropsColombia releases Cotesia and Trichogramma wasps against the sugarcane borer on smallholder panela farms
ICA, Cenicaña and Ingenio Providencia are running three parasitoid releases in Versalles, Valle del Cauca, and early monitoring shows Diatraea numbers falling, with at least 50 percent control expected.
CropsBrazilian court gives the agriculture ministry 180 days to ban aerial spraying of three neonicotinoids on all crops
The TRF3 panel found 'qualified administrative inertia' after Ibama's re-evaluations of imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam sat unimplemented for years; Ibama has 360 days to finish its fipronil review.
Market ManagementBrazil's fertiliser buyers face a 'perfect storm' as phosphate supply tightens
Geopolitics, tighter credit and logistics have pushed Brazilian fertiliser buyers to bring purchases forward and favour product already in the country; deliveries fell 5.4 per cent in the first half to 19.02 million tonnes, phosphates are the bottleneck as sulfur routed through the Strait of Hormuz
CropsIndian rice lines carrying four drought genes yield 36-82% more under water stress
Breeding lines that stack four drought-tolerance QTLs into the variety DRR Dhan 50 by marker-assisted conventional crossing out-yielded their parent by 36 to 82 per cent under drought in a study by Malla Reddy University, ICAR-IIRR, Central Agricultural University and ICAR-NIPB, a route that needs
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RNAi sprays are ready for the field; regulation and public trust will decide adoption
A Nature Plants review led by Charles Sturt University with Queensland, Curtin, UC Riverside and GreenLight Biosciences says the first RNAi products against Colorado potato beetle and varroa mite mark a turning point, production costs have fallen sharply, and the remaining barriers are divergent app
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Heat-tolerant Trichoderma from Brazil's Caatinga could be biofungicides for hot, dry farms
Embrapa researchers isolated 14 strains of five Trichoderma species from native scrub and irrigated melon fields in Bahia and Piauí; strains from farmed soil kept growing at 35 °C, outcompeted Rhizoctonia and Macrophomina head-on and cut other pathogens' growth by more than 70% with volatile compoun