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Mung Bean Pan-Genome Reveals Key Crop Traits
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (369+ words) The study, published in Nature Genetics, was co-led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Murdoch University’s Centre for Crop and Food Innovation. The resulting pan-genome includes more than 75,000 gene families and over 66,000 structural variants. Researchers linked…...
EU NGT Regulation: Why the 20-Nucleotide Threshold Could Limit Plant Breeding Innovation
2+ mon, 1+ 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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...