Angelica Barlis of the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT sums up a Dryland Congress panel: adapt technology locally, build it into institutions and measure use, not workshops.
CropsA review in The Plant Journal suggests crops could be protected against whole families of pathogen proteins at once, using AI protein design to block features the pathogens share.
CropsA University of Missouri study of soil samples kept since 1888 finds average sulfur levels fell from 807 to 232 pounds per acre, and says growers can no longer count on the air to supply it.
CropsResearchers from Sultan Qaboos University, the James Hutton Institute and others refined a method to measure DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, a window on the biologically active part of the phosphorus cycle.
CropsICAR-IIMR's regional pearl millet station at Gudamalani, Balotra, opened a new administrative and laboratory building and a technology park, part of Rs 1,716 lakh of investment to strengthen research and farmer training.
BangladeshBangladesh is small, but its soil, water and weather change sharply from place to place. BARC divides the country into 30 agro-ecological zones. Here is what each zone is like, and how village data, satellite images and machine learning can give farmers sharper advice.
AgribusinessAgriculture Minister Heath MacDonald says the closures will be phased and carefully managed, rejecting a bipartisan committee's call to reconsider; opposition MPs and unions object.
OpinionWhy Bangladesh needs more farmer-centred, field-based, data-driven and impact-oriented agricultural research
At a Gazipur workshop on the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute's progress and plans, agriculture secretary Md Selim Khan said the government would give talented agricultural scientists their due.
AgrotechNorth South University and the Shykh Seraj Initiative have launched a joint initiative to systematically collect, verify, preserve and analyse field-level agricultural data, to support researchers, evidence-based decision-making and policy development in Bangladesh and to bridge the field and the academy.
The handheld device reads a test strip by fluorescence to detect pregnancy-specific protein B without a technician or laboratory; a second version adds progesterone to show ovarian status, and field trials at Cornell's dairy research centre are about to begin.
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
The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium's 2026 awards fund university and government teams in the United States, Canada, Denmark and Israel to test enhanced-efficiency fertilisers, biofertilisers, placement and cover crops across corn, soybean, cotton, irrigated and dryland systems under common field-tr
