Creating Lettuce Resistant to New Downy Mildew Races
15 January 2024, UK: With races of downy mildew in lettuce ever evolving, it’s important to find varieties that provide the resistance
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Syngenta is a global agricultural technology company and part of Syngenta Group, with more than 50,000 employees operating in over 90 countries. The company focuses on developing technologies and solutions that help farmers improve productivity and resilience while addressing challenges such as climate change, water scarcity, pests, diseases, and resource constraints. Syngenta Group is a global leader in crop protection and biologicals and ranks among the world’s largest seed businesses.
Syngenta’s core businesses include Crop Protection and Seeds, supported by research and development in chemistry, biology, genetics, biotechnology, AI and digital agriculture. Its crop protection portfolio covers herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, seed treatments, biocontrols and other plant health technologies, while Syngenta Seeds develops varieties and technologies for crops including corn, soybean, sunflower, cereals and vegetables.
The company is also expanding its biologicals portfolio through biocontrols, biostimulants and nutrient-use-efficiency (NUE) products, with applications focused on pest and disease management, crop resilience, soil health and nutrient uptake. Syngenta’s Cropwise™ platform brings digital tools and data-driven technologies into farm management, supporting precision agriculture, decision-making and resource efficiency.
Syngenta invests heavily in agricultural R&D, with its global seeds and crop protection research spending exceeding $1.4 billion annually. Its innovation pipeline includes new active ingredients, seed technologies, biological solutions, AI applications and digital farming tools.
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15 January 2024, UK: With races of downy mildew in lettuce ever evolving, it’s important to find varieties that provide the resistance
Read More08 January 2024, USA: Syngenta Vegetable Seeds and Apricus Seeds announced the signing of a global licensing agreement that will provide Syngenta
Read More07 January 2024, USA: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, a global leader in crop protection, and Gowan SeedTech LLC, a global, family-owned agriculture
Read More24 December 2024, UK: Three new barley varieties from Syngenta have been added to the latest AHDB Recommended Lists (RLs) – two new
Read More24 December 2024, US: Go into any store in the U.S. or Mexico selling squash and you’ll likely see Les Padley’s creations.
Read More20 December 2024, US: When Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus was first discovered in 2015, we knew it would have significant impact, and we
Read More17 December 2024, UK: A new Syngenta nitrogen fixing biostimulant for potatoes, Vixeran, could provide crops with an equivalent of 30 kg/ha conventional
Read More16 December 2024, US: Syngenta Crop Protection has reached a new milestone in its collaboration with AI-informed crop health company Enko® to discover
Read More16 December 2024, UK: Potato growers using Nemathorin to manage the crop’s key soil pests this season can now earn bonus Partnership Plan reward points for demonstrating
Read More13 December 2024, UK: The drive towards net zero continues at pace with many sectors of the economy reviewing and optimising their current
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