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OrganicIn Whole Earth Farming, Hugh Locke proposes helping 240 million smallholder families adopt regenerative agriculture and agroforestry, citing yield gains of about 40 percent among members of his Haiti farmers' alliance.
Field trials at the University of Lleida found pre-flowering heat cut grain numbers most, while plants hit early suffered less from a second heat wave.
A €5.5 million, five-year Horizon Europe project with 20 partners will build regional hubs linking legume growers, processors and livestock farmers, as a quarter of EU feed protein is still imported.
The James Hutton Institute and AgriSound will link bioacoustic pollinator monitoring to fruit set, yield and quality in strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and cherries.
CropsResearchers at The Sainsbury Laboratory and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon have shown that the PIPL7 peptide made by the embryo is the long-sought ligand of the IKU2 seed-size receptor in the endosperm; raising PIPL7 expression produced larger seeds in a crop proof of concept, and a patent has
A Science Bulletin analysis of 48 traits, 539 varieties and 1,709 field observations finds 'green and efficient' maize already yields 10% more, but commercial varieties rarely stack three or more traits and nitrogen-use efficiency stays underused; full adoption would add 146 million tonnes of grain
The 2023 law entering into force in September 2026 sets up permits, state registers, labelling thresholds of 0.1-0.9% and enforcement, bans open-field GM maize indefinitely and GM sugar beet and rapeseed for five years, and cancels every GMO registration not permitted in the EU the day Ukraine joins
The twin frameworks will guide Horizon Europe 2028-2034 and parts of the European Competitiveness Fund, putting weight on testing solutions with farmers and getting them to market; Euroseeds welcomed the naming of plant breeding as a cornerstone of cropping systems and asked for matching money under
In Arabidopsis, CAMTA6, PP2C49 and HKT1;1 keep potassium in and sodium out of the germinating embryo; blocking PP2C49 with the bloodroot compound sanguinarine lifted germination from 76% to 92% under moderate salt and from 3% to 37% under severe salt, though the benefit ended at emergence.
