OrganicIn a position paper on the revision of the EU organic regulation, the seed industry body asks lawmakers to drop Amendment 14, which would let the Commission set extra rules on how organic varieties are bred.
VegetablesA Texas A&M AgriLife team created a full-length DNA copy of a pepper-infecting TSWV strain that produces infectious virus on demand, giving breeders a standard tool to screen tomatoes and peppers for resistance.
CropsCGIAR's Breeding for Tomorrow programme answers eight common myths about crop breeding, from whether it is outdated to how genomic selection, speed breeding, drones and AI are shortening the time it takes to bring a new variety to farmers.
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
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
