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Three red rot-resistant sugarcane varieties from ICAR-SBI await notification in 2026

Co 20016 (Karan 20) for the Northwest Zone, Co 18003 for the Peninsular Zone as an upgrade on Co 86032, and Co 09004 for the East Coast Zone with smut resistance too are at the Central Variety Release Committee, director P. Govindaraj said; the Coimbatore institute's conventional pipeline holds abou

Global Agriculture18 September 20262 min read

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Same seed, different rules: 34 nations regulate gene-edited crops, report urges alignment

A dialogue report from the UK-CGIAR Centre's wheat improvement project, drawing on a June 2026 policy-learning event with eight countries, finds 34 countries with genome-editing frameworks and 39 changing theirs, warns that the same product can be classed differently across borders, and recommends a

CABI18 September 20262 min read