New Rapid Test Detects Wheat Blast in Just 90 Minutes
22 September 2026, England: Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England, working with Ethiopia’s national agricultural research service, have developed
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UK Clears Gene-Edited Vitamin D Tomato for the Market
22 September 2026, England, UK: A tomato engineered to accumulate high levels of vitamin D has received a formal marketing notice from
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Brazil’s Embrapa Releases New Disease-Resistant Pear Variety
22 September 2026, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Brazil’s national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has released a new pear cultivar bred specifically
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Where Research Journeys Begin: Nurturing the Next Generation of Agricultural Researchers
21 September 2026, Mexico: Long before Sanjaya Rajaram became one of the world’s most influential wheat breeders, he was a young researcher
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Building Grain and Flour Phenotyping Capacity at Kiboko (Kenya) and Thies (Senegal): A Journey in Progress
21 September 2026, Kenya, Senegal: The establishment of grain and flour phenotyping platforms for groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet represents
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CIMMYT and APSA Forge New Opportunities For Advanced Innovations In Maize For The Asian Region
21 September 2026, New Delhi: CIMMYT and the Asia Pacific Seed Association (APSA) convened a high-level meeting in Hyderabad on 21 August
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Florida Growers Order 300,000 Gene-Edited Trees to Fight Citrus Greening
21 September 2026, Florida, United States: Florida citrus growers have ordered more than 300,000 trees of CarriCea T1, a CRISPR gene-edited rootstock
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Low-Cost Laser Weeding Robot Built for Smallholder Farms Passes Field Tests in Canada and Tanzania
21 September 2026, British Columbia, Canada: Engineers at Simon Fraser University’s Global Institute for Agritech in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, have built
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MacEwan University Pairs Cheap Soil Test With VR Training for Global Farmers
21 September 2026, Alberta, Canada: Researchers at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, have built a virtual reality training platform to help farmers
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Japanese Researchers Use CRISPR to Edit the Tears Out of Onions
21 September 2026, Japan: Scientists at Chiba University in Japan, working with food manufacturer House Foods Group, have used CRISPR gene editing
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