9+ hour, 45+ min ago   (651+ words) Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate agriculture, prized for its rapid growth, high digestibility and adaptability to intensive grazing and cutting systems. Yet behind its agronomic value lies a stubborn problem…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (87+ words) 22nd Century Technologies wins NIH NIDA SOAR Support Services task OrangeSlices AI This rapidly growing mid-size Service Integrator, currently supporting many of the nation’s mission-critical programs including Digital Transformation, Cloud Migration, Cyber Security, Application Modernization, IT Infrastructure, O&M, and Workforce…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (493+ words) This Cornell professor says his greatest accomplishment isn’t a variety or a publication. It’s the next generation of scientists who will carry the work forward. Ask Dr. Mark Sorrells what he’s most proud of after more than four decades in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (456+ words) The shift from looking at lots of possibilities to focusing on specific ones in a drug discovery pipeline is why traditional pipelines don’t work well. It’s also why for immunotherapy discovery, you need a “relationship-first” architecture that can track how…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (271+ words) image: Characterization of the new powdery mildew resistance gene Pm72 from wild einkorn accession PI 427741 view more Credit: Siyuan Zhou, et al. Wheat powdery mildew, a prevalent foliar disease, severely threatens wheat yield and quality. Cultivating resistant wheat varieties is an…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (116+ words) Simon Fraser University Department of Biological Sciences Biological Sciences Merit Scholarship Spring 2026 Congratulations to Yuvraj Kaura, the winner of the Biological Sciences Merit Scholarship for Spring 2026! I am a fourth-year Biological Sciences Honours student at SFU with a deep passion…...

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…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (412+ words) Jeddah, July 20, 2026, SPA -- Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new method for adding large pieces of genetic information into specific locations within a plant's genome, overcoming a challenge that has hindered plant biotechnology…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (290+ words) A new study from the International Barley Hub (IBH), published in New Phytologist, has identified the genetic mechanisms behind specialized surface features that help barley withstand environmental stress and maintain grain quality. The IBH, part of a £62-million investment through…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (259+ words) More specifically, the authors note that, “integrating these structural variants and single nucleotide polymorphisms, genome-wide association studies across five environments identified candidate genes for 20 agronomic traits, underscoring the pivotal roles of these variants in driving mung bean domestication and improvement....