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Hutton Launches Potato Virus Testing for 2026 Campaign
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (425+ words) Hutton Scientific Services (HSS), the commercial arm of The James Hutton Institute, has launched a new commercial potato virus testing service for the 2026 seed potato campaign. The service was developed in response to the withdrawal of commercial testing services by…...
EU NGT Regulation: Why the 20-Nucleotide Threshold Could Limit Plant Breeding Innovation
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (418+ words) Europe has finally moved on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), and for that the seed sector should allow itself a moment of cautious celebration. After years of legal uncertainty, political wrangling and the long shadow of the GMO debate, the EU…...
Innovation is at the End of the Handoff Era
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (992+ words) For decades, innovation in agriculture often moved from one discipline to another in a series of handoffs. Traits moved to breeding. Breeding delivered products to the field. Crop protection addressed challenges that emerged along the way. Amanda McClerren says that…...
Seed Sector 2045: Future of Plant Breeding in Europe
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (698+ words) How to Read the MapEach line represents a group of related forces shaping the seed sector. Each station is one article in the series. Together, they trace a pathway towards Seed Sector 2045. Each year, the Seed World Europe Advisory Board…...
The Race to Accelerate Plant Breeding Innovation
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1181+ words) Plant breeders have always chased the same goal: genetic gain. Every improvement in yield potential, disease resistance, stress tolerance or agronomic performance traces back to a breeder’s ability to identify better genetics and move them into farmers’ fields. What has…...
Biotech Just Hit Fast Forward. Is Europe’s Seed Sector Ready?
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (812+ words) Biotechnology Moves from Promise to Practice Biotechnology is often described as a technology of the future. For Richard Harrison, managing director of plant sciences at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), that future is arriving much faster than many people in agriculture…...
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Rothamsted Barley Becomes First Crop Cleared Under UK Precision-Breeding Rules
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (237+ words) A gene-edited barley developed by scientists at Rothamsted Research has become the first crop to receive a Precision Bred Organism (PBO) marketing notice confirmation under the UK’s new precision-breeding regulatory framework. This confirmation means the barley qualifies as a precision-bred…...
Government Funding Supports Gene-edited Crops At John Innes Centre
7+ mon, 3+ day ago (735+ words) Deadline Extended to Feb 20: Nominations Open for Europe’s Promising Young Plant Breeders The John Innes Centre, together with its academic and industry partners, has secured UK Government funding for four projects aimed at advancing precision breeding. In England, the pathway…...