Open-access wild tomato genome offers valuable insights for tomato growers, crop scientistsMar. 22, 2018

The Boyce Thompson Institute’s Computational Biology Center (BCBC) in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University has released an annotated g...

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Pakistan set to become member of hybrid rice seed exporting clubMar. 22, 2018

Pakistan is all set to become a member of the elite hybrid rice seed exporting club next month, after executing the pioneering trade deal wi...

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Arcadia Biosciences appoints Sarah Reiter as new Chief Commercial OfficerMar. 22, 2018

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKDA), an agricultural technology company, announced today that Sarah Reiter has joined the company’s ex...

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Bayer wins EU approval for takeover MonsantoMar. 22, 2018

Bayer won EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $62.5 billion buy of U.S. peer Monsanto, the latest in a trio of mega mergers that will...

Arcadia Biosciences sales up 25% in financial 2017Mar. 22, 2018

Arcadia Biosciences, a consumer-driven, agricultural food ingredient company, today released its financial and business results for the four...

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Monsanto enters the capital of Bioceres, an Argentine biotechnology companyMar. 22, 2018

Monsanto entered the capital of Rosario Bioceres, the biotechnology firm that has been trying to go public for more than a year.

Breakthrough in improving yield potential could continue what the Green Revolution startedMar. 22, 2018

A lot has been written about the Green Revolution in the late 1960s, which helped prevent mass famine. IR8, the first rice variety released ...

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Monsanto and Pairwise Plants announce R&D collaboration to accelerate innovation in agriculture with gene editingMar. 21, 2018

Monsanto Company and Pairwise Plants (Pairwise), an agricultural startup, have announced a collaboration to advance agriculture research and...

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Argentina approves new corn, soybean GMO seedsMar. 21, 2018

The Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina has approved the commercialization of two varieties of corn and one soybean variety improved by mod...

FarmHannong seeks to lead global green bio marketMar. 21, 2018

AgroPages recently interviewed Dr. Kim YongWhan, CEO at FarmHannong, to seek his views on FarmHannong’s global presence, product series, sy...

Arcadia Biosciences launches GoodWheat consumer ingredient brandMar. 20, 2018

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKDA), an agricultural technology company, today announced the official launch of its GoodWheat™ consume...

China's Longping High-Tech, ChemChina unit set up corn seed JVMar. 20, 2018

Chinese seed firm Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture on Tuesday said it is setting up a corn seed joint venture with China National Agroche...

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Golden Rice gains health and safety nod from Health CanadaMar. 20, 2018

Health Canada has notified the International Rice Research Institute that it has no objection to the food use of Provitamin A Biofortified R...

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AfricaRice and IRRI agree to a step-change in partnership to harness synergies and accelerate their impact in Africa on rice-based food systemsMar. 20, 2018

The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have agreed to a step-change in their partnership t...

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Saving spinach: A WSU plant researcher’s work helps lucrative spinach seed industryMar. 19, 2018

Lindsey du Toit is on a mission to save American spinach seeds. Her greenhouse at Washington State University’s Mount Vernon Northwestern W...

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New Breeding Technologies successful to grow salt resistant cropsMar. 19, 2018

Prof Mark Tester, a world renowned authority on Food security on Thursday said new technologies of breeding crops would be helpful to conver...

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TMG launches new seeds at Expodireto in BrazilMar. 19, 2018

During the Expodireto 2018, held in the city of Não-Me-Toque, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the Tropical Melhoramento and Genética (TMG) pres...

Monsanto unfazed by legal wrangles, keeps Brazil dicamba-tolerant seed launchMar. 19, 2018

U.S. agricultural biotech firm Monsanto Co plans to push ahead with its launch schedule for soy seeds genetically modified to resist dicamba...

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Syngenta seeds aggressively seeking acquisitions and collaborationMar. 19, 2018

The president of Syngenta Seeds says as industry mergers continue, the company is aggressively seeking acquisitions.

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Bayer faces U.S. antitrust hurdles for Monsanto mergerMar. 16, 2018

Bayer faces continued U.S. antitrust objections over its planned takeover of Monsanto (MON), as officials fears the merger would hurt compet...

Philippine Rice Research Institute releases rice varieties that can withstand water-related stressMar. 16, 2018

Farmers no longer have to worry about low yield caused by water-related stress as the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has deve...

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Protein science to advance through LenioBio and Dow AgroSciences license agreementMar. 16, 2018

Proteins are the building blocks of science and the speed, quality and efficiency of protein production research is being advanced through a...

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Kenya's test of Monsanto's BT cotton in final phaseMar. 16, 2018

Kenya is rolling out field trials for genetically modified cotton in nine research stations – as it prepares to finally embrace the commerc...

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African seed companies encouraged to invest in biotechnologyMar. 15, 2018

Seed companies in Africa have been challenged to explore ways of developing their own biotech products to meet the rising needs of food in t...

Arcadia Biosciences achieves key resistant starch wheat technology milestones, prepares for commercial launchMar. 15, 2018

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company, today announced that it has achieved two key technology milestones in its Hig...

EU General Court annuls the decision on genetically modified soybean productsMar. 15, 2018

The General Court annuls the decision whereby the Commission rejected an application for review of the marketing authorisation granted to pr...

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Clearfield wheat gets a yield boost with the release of AGT’s Razor CL PlusMar. 15, 2018

The Clearfield® production system involving cereal varieties that are tolerant to Intervix® herbicide continues to play an integral part o...

Flood, drought and disease tolerant -- one gene to rule them allMar. 14, 2018

An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Nagoya University and the University of Western Australi...

Calyxt reports financial results for fourth quarter and full-year 2017Mar. 14, 2018

Calyxt, Inc., a consumer-centric, food- and agriculture-focused company, today announced its results for the three-month period ended Decemb...

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India slashes Monsanto's GMO seed royalty, may trigger another rowMar. 14, 2018

India has cut royalties that local seed companies pay to US agrochemical giant Monsanto for the second time in two years. The producer of ge...

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