New Wheat Gene Yr88 Explains 86% of Resistance to Stripe Rust
28 September 2026, New South Wales, Australia: Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Plant Breeding Institute in Cobbitty, New South Wales,
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John Innes Centre Engineers Wheat Immune Receptors to Fight Blast Fungus on Multiple Fronts
28 September 2026, Norwich, United Kingdom: Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, have engineered a class of plant
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UC Riverside’s AI Screens 50 Million Compounds to Find Chemicals That Steer Bees Away From Pesticides
28 September 2026, California, USA: Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have used a machine learning model to sift through
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TerraBlaster Raises $12.5 Million for a Laser Soil Scanner That Maps Nutrients at Tractor Speed
28 September 2026, St. Louis: A St. Louis, Missouri agtech startup has closed an oversubscribed $12.5 million seed round to commercialize
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Culture Meets Peace And Development In Karamoja
26 September 2026, Uganda: When I arrived in Moroto for the 11th Karamoja Cultural Event (KCE) 2026, I expected a cultural
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Designing AI with women, not for them. Reflections from Africa Food Systems Forum 2026
26 September 2026, Africa: The growing integration of AI into agriculture is a given. In research, the conversation is moving beyond
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Scaling Week Day 2: The Hard Knocks Of Scaling, And How We Rise
26 September 2026, Africa: On the second morning of CGIAR Scaling Week 2026, the room fell quiet. After a first day
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Early Heat Waves Hit Wheat Yields Hardest, Spanish Field Study Finds
25 September 2026, Catalonia, Spain: Heat waves that strike wheat crops before flowering cause significantly greater yield losses than heat waves that
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Embrapa Identifies Gene Target for Banana Fusarium Wilt Resistance
25 September 2026, Bahia, Brazil: Researchers at Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura, the cassava and fruit crops research unit of Brazil’s national agricultural
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Florida Trials Compare New Nematicides for Carrot Growers
25 September 2026, Florida, USA: Zane Grabau, an associate professor of nematology in the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural
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