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Bayer: Biotechnology and AI could accelerate the next generation of crop improvement

Biotechnology is a broad field, and Bayer Crop Science is using several tools to improve crop genetics and help farmers manage risk. Amanda McClerren, Bayer’s head of biotechnology...

Engineered Rhizobium Strain Opens Transient Gene Expression to Diverse Crops

An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional genomics to non-model...

Syngenta Announces New Biologicals Technology

Syngenta recently announced new EXORTâ„¢ technology, a major scientific breakthrough the company says helps plants make better use of their own biology. This new technology opens t...

Quantifying crop science: a review of phenotyping, mechanics, and modeling

Crop science is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation, and a new review published in Plant Molecular Biology argues that the change amounts to the birth of an entirely new...

Mild Pepper Virus Turned Into a Powerful Gene Tool for Crop Scientists

Pepper is one of the most economically important vegetable crops in the world, yet scientists trying to understand which of its genes do what have long been hampered by a stubborn...

IIT Madras Research Park launches Phyto-Innovation Accelerator for plant-based innovations

The programme is anchored by the Herbalife-IITM Centre of Excellence, established this year for sustainable and scalable herbal biomass production

Gene editing a must to raise yield in India as technologies have no boundary: Seed industry

The sector seeks the development of new technologies and their approval, so that they can be made available to the farmers

APEC Holds High-Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology

A broad-host-range <i>Rhizobium rhizogenes</i> strain enables transient expression across diverse crop speci...

by Freddie King, Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo, Christopher Stephens, May Htet Aung, Tarhan Ibrahim, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Ao Chen, Nick Eilmann, Saskia Jenkins, Cristina Vuolo, Yueh-Nin...

Mapping the Dynamic Plant Interactome: New Quantitative In Vivo Approaches Emerge

Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help roots find water—depends on proteins physically tou...

Bayer to bring 10 products to world market in 10 years

In soy, ‘Vyconic 1’ is expected to be introduced next year in the US and Canada, and ‘Intacta 5+’ is expected to be introduced in the 2027-28 growing season in Brazil

APHIS Requests Comment on Petition to Deregulate Insect-Resistant Soybean Developed Using Genetic Engineering

PrimeStack editors enable efficient and site-specific integration of large multigene cargos in plants

by Edith Sánchez, Khalid Sedeek, Haroon Butt, Magdy Mahfouz Precise, site-specific integration of large DNA sequences into plant genomes is a long-standing goal of crop biotechnol...

Early Gibberellin Surge Under High-Density Planting Weakens Rapeseed Stems, Study Finds

Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more...

Multi-omics reveals metabolic regulation of petal color in Phalaenopsis

In a finding that is already rippling through the world of ornamental plant science, researchers in China have pieced together, gene by gene and pigment by pigment, the molecular m...

Tree peony transcription factor PrIDD7 suppresses seed oil accumulation

A Molecular Brake in Tree Peony Seeds Could Help Scientists Produce More Plant Oil Tree peony seeds may be hiding a powerful molecular switch for controlling oil production. In a s...

The End of Papaya?: What Genomics Teaches Us About Its Survival

A study of papayas in Mexican backyards reveals how hybridisation between wild and cultivated plants can boost genetic diversity while creating new challenges for conservation.

Edel Pérez-López: Fighting Plant Diseases with Genomics and AI

Botany One interviews Dr Edel Pérez-López, a researcher combining plant pathology, genomics and artificial intelligence to develop more resilient crops and sustainable disease mana...

FABA, NIAB sign MoU to boost biotechnology skill development

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh Formalises Commercial Launch of Bio-based Biodegradable Plastic under BioE3

 Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh Formalises Commercial Launch of Bio-based Biodegradable Plastic under BioE3India’s Diverse Biomass Resources Can Turn Waste into Wealth and Creat...

Brassinosteroids boost sugar synthesis by blocking BIN2 phosphorylation of PEP carboxykinase

Hidden Sugar Switch: How Plant Steroid Hormones Seize Direct Control of Metabolism Every seed is a wager on sugar. Inside an oilseed such as rapeseed or castor bean lies a cache of...

Montana student compares banana and plantain starch to make stronger bioplastic

Rye Lynn Rost, a seventh grader from Montana, created bioplastics using starch from plantains and bananas. She discovered that plantains have more starch and higher tensile strengt...

Crystal Crop’s marigold R&D effort has global firms coming to India to export the flower

The company developing orchid hybrids from local germplasm that will be cheaper than imported ones

IIT-M Launches Biotechnology Finishing School For Graduates

The initiative, launched through SynBioME, the IIT-M-TICEL Biofoundry, targets pre-final and final-year BTech, MTech and MSc students in biotechnology and allied disciplines across...