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New gene-editing system precisely inserts large DNA sequences into cellular DNA

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Gene-edited seed developer Cibus officially withdraws $100 million IPO

Date：May. 27, 2019 Category：Companies

Cibus, which is developing gene-edited crop traits for the global seed industry, officially withdrew its plans for an initial public offering on Friday. It had ...
14 EU countries call for ‘unified approach’ to gene editing in plants

Date：May. 27, 2019 Category：Markets

The Netherlands and Estonia are leading a coalition of 14 EU member states calling on the next European Commission to update EU GMO laws with regard to so-calle...

Tags:Gene Editing
How corn’s ancient ancestor swipes left on crossbreeding

Date：May. 27, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Determining how one species becomes distinct from another has been a subject of fascination dating back to Charles Darwin.

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Mark Schermer new Head of Flowers Europe at Syngenta Flowers

Date：May. 27, 2019 Category：Companies

Syngenta Flowers has been focusing on growth and innovation in recent years. The company is on the move and strives for a blooming future. To continue this posi...

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TMG and Verdeca receive approval to commercialize HB4 drought tolerant soybeans in Brazil

Date：May. 27, 2019 Category：Regulations

TMG and Verdeca, a joint venture between Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.and Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., announced today that they have successfully completed the r...

Tags:Soybean
Brazilian biodiversity leader and Benson Hill Biosystems expand partnership to advance crop breeding

Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Companies

Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company unlocking the natural diversity of plants, and Embrapa, one of the world’s largest plant biodiversity and cr...

Tags:Collaboration
Genetic discovery may improve corn quality, yields

Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Researchers may be able to improve corn yields and nutritional value after discovering genetic regulators that synthesize starch and protein in the widely eaten...

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S&W and Corteva Agriscience enter new mutually beneficial alfalfa licensing agreement

Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Companies
S&W Seed Company

S&W Seed Company and Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, announced they have entered into a new mutually beneficial alfalfa agreement that...
Dr Nicolas Taylor: Developing salt-tolerant wheat

Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Salinity threatens to reduce wheat yields across the West Australian Wheatbelt and is a major threat to the world’s arable land, agricultural productivity and ...

Tags:wheat
US Plant Variety Protection Act now covers asexually reproduced plants

Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

The 2018 Farm Bill included changes to the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) that extends the availability of protection to asexually reproduced plants.
Pakistan lawmakers to discuss commercialisation of genetically-modified organism maize

Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

A meeting of the National Assembly’s standing committee on national food security and research would discuss the thorny issue of commercialisation of genetical...

Tags:GM crop Maize
Bühler opens its CUBIC innovation campus - The CUBIC is synonymous with innovation, collaboration, and training

Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

After a construction period of 20 months and an investment of about CHF 50 million, Bühler Group officially opened its CUBIC innovation campus with eight Appli...
US to help Pakistan introduce genetically-engineered corn

Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

The Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said that future collaborative projects between the US and Pakistan i...

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Biotechnological companies DBN and Bioceres reaffirm its strategic alliance

Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

In the Argentine Embassy in China and under the title “Introducing an Environmental Resilience”, alongside with its Chinese DBN partner, Bioceres company pres...

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Tomato pan-genome makes bringing flavor back easier

Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Almost everyone agrees that most store-bought tomatoes don't have much flavor. Now, scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Boyce Thomps...

Tags:Fruits and Vegetables
Did you know that treated seeds perform better?

Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Treated seed has a much better chance of thriving under adverse conditions when untreated seed might be challenged.

Tags:Seed treatment Ornamental and Turf
How can tomato farming be improved in Kenya? Study finds producers face a ‘myriad of constraints’

Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

In a recently published paper in Scientific African, CABI’s Willis Ochilo led on a study which captured a better understanding of tomato producers in Kenya, de...

Tags:Fruits and Vegetables
PlantResponse Biotech announces license agreement with the University of Tübingen for trait technology

Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies
PlantResponse Biotech S.L.

PlantResponse™ Biotech announced a licensing agreement has been signed with the University of Tübingen in Germany for trait technology that confers enhanced p...
Benson Hill, Rapid Genomics to collaborate on crop improvement

Date：May. 21, 2019 Category：Companies

Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company unlocking the natural diversity of plants, has entered into a partnership with RAPiD Genomics, a provider of ...

Tags:Collaboration
Enza Zaden to spotlight new lettuces, endive and Eazyleaf products at its California Field Days

Date：May. 21, 2019 Category：Companies

West coast growers and dealers are invited to the Enza Zaden San Juan Bautista Station (June 11-13) for three days of in-depth conversation with Enza Zaden prod...

Tags:Fruits and Vegetables
New West Genetics files for first USDA Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Certificate for AOSCA certified hemp seed

Date：May. 21, 2019 Category：Companies

Today, New West Genetics announced that NWG-ELITE®, its high-yielding hemp grain variety, has been submitted for approval under the newly authorized USDA Plant...
Wageningen University professor Luisa Trindade wants to make jeans from tomatoes

Date：May. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

The recently appointed professor with a personal chair Luisa Trindade breeds crops for the biobased economy. Following her motto ‘no waste’, she aims at using...
Wild wheat relative genes to aid in battle against trio of pests

Date：May. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Wheat curl mite, greenbug and Hessian fly have long been troublemaker pests for Texas wheat, but a team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists is ready to go...

Tags:wheat
Blocked by GMO politics, African scientist turns to 1950s technology

Date：May. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Africa’s uneasy history with agricultural biotechnology can be summed up by what’s growing, and not growing, on a small research farm in central Malawi, one o...

Tags:GM crop
Breakthrough technique for studying gene expression takes root in plants

Date：May. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

An open-source RNA analysis platform has been successfully used on plant cells for the first time – an advance that could herald a new era of fundamental resea...
Brazil seeks China's OK for genetically modified sugarcane

Date：May. 20, 2019 Category：Regulations

Brazil’s agriculture minister will ask Chinese officials on Thursday to greenlight exports to the Asian nation of sugar made from genetically modified (GM) sug...

Tags:GM crop Sugarcane
Syngenta joins partnership with Iowa Soybean Research Center at Iowa State University

Date：May. 20, 2019 Category：Companies
Syngenta International AG

The Iowa Soybean Research Center at Iowa State University recently announced Syngenta as its latest industry partner. In this role, Syngenta will have a seat on...
KWS well on track after the first nine month 2018/2019 – Annual forecast concretized

Date：May. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

The KWS Group generated net sales of €857.7 million, at the level of the previous year (€862.5 million), in the first nine month 2018/2019. Operating income (...

Tags:Sales Performance
Hazera: Allium research in Rilland ‘Leading The World’

Date：May. 17, 2019 Category：Companies

Hazera has offered a winning combination of high yields and long storage-life in onions for years.

Tags:Fruits and Vegetables
Bayer CropScience introduces a new variety of Charentais melon

Date：May. 17, 2019 Category：Products

A few days ago, the "Vegetable" division of Bayer CropScience presented the new early Charentais melon characterized by a very red flesh, called "SV9790MC" and ...

Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

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: Investment & Expansion

Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn
FMC Canada opens new head office in Mississauga, Ontario

Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn
FMC Canada opens new head office in Mississauga, Ontario

: Registration & Launch

Brazil Anvisa approves Corteva's herbicide Rinskor
Sipcam's Coastal Herbicide registered in US

Brazil Anvisa approves Corteva's herbicide Rinskor
Sipcam's Coastal Herbicide registered in US

: Collaborations & Licences

Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve
BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve
BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

: Mergers & Acquisitions

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.
Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.
Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link

: Sales Performance

Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018
Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018
Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

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: What options/alternatives farmers in China have replacing paraquat? Are there other useful herbicdes, i.e. diquat, glufosinate (which others) that can cover this gap? Would the replacements be related to higher costs as well? What crop protection startegies would farmers adapt replacing paraquat?

1 Like 1 AnswersSir, thanks for question. For weed control, Glyphosate and Glufosinate are the main options while many other broad spectrum herbicides also ...All

: Asian soybean rust is the most important disease in soybean, the yield loss being from 10% to 90%, dependent on the geographical region where the disease was reported. What are the key points in controlling Asian rust?

The use of an efficient product since the beginning of the soy cycle is one of the most important decisions for growers after the crop impla...All