CropsA study of 1,285 breeding lines and 11,099 plants from a commercial sugar beet programme, 1998-2018, shows the male and female pools drifting apart and tracks how a nematode-tolerance trait spread from 9% to 43% of lines.
CropsResearchers mapped 210 rare haplotypes linked to rice yield, grain quality and stress tolerance, and one of them, DEP1-H2, raised yields by up to 9.87% when bred into the Indian variety Swarna.
LivestockAt Lactanet's dairy forum, two large farms said they no longer use type classification, relying on genomics and robot data instead, while a Quebec farmer warned that fewer records could weaken genetic evaluations.
Hamburg's Soilytix has launched LOAM, AI models trained on 15,640 soil microbial genomes, to narrow the flood of candidate biological crop-protection products before costly lab, greenhouse and field trials.
AgrotechAn Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Carleton University team combines genomic, gene-expression and protein-interaction data with machine learning to find the many small-effect genes behind resistance to Sclerotinia.
AgrotechGenome Alberta and the provincial government are putting $5.9 million into seven projects that link genomic data with AI and machine learning to give farmers tools on cattle selection, clubroot, flea beetles, parasites, bees and antimicrobial resistance.
AgrotechNorthern Genomics data from 34,000 heifers show fertility traits are heritable, so weaning records and genomic tools can pick the cows that do best under the same conditions.
A USD 14.95 million centre funded by KOICA at the University of the Philippines Los Baños gives breeders genomics and bioinformatics tools to develop rice and other crops adapted to drought, flooding and disease.
