Breeding for next-generation biotic stress-tolerant pigeonpea for sustainable food legume production
Tuesday, 26-05-2026 | 07:48
Pigeonpea, scientifically known as Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp, is an important leguminous crop grown in tropical and subtropical areas. However, its production is increasingly threatened by biotic stresses, including sterility mosaic disease (SMD), fusarium wilt (FW), Helicoverpa armigera, Maruca vitrata, and other emerging plant pathogens, posing significant challenges to its sustainability. The pigeonpea gene pool exhibits considerable genetic diversity for biotic stress resistance, offering potential for developing resistant cultivars.
Updated News
- Hilltops and teacups: How Rwanda is maximising its hilly landscape and boosting up small-scale farmers for quality tea production
- FAO Director General honours India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi with FAO’s prestigious Agricola Medal
- ICRISAT and CIMMYT Launch New Initiative to Fast-Track Climate-Resilient Crops for Dryland Farmers in Africa and India
- ICRISAT Unveils New Identity for its Center of Excellence for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture
- Plant Health for Food Security: ICRISAT’s Integrated Approach to Grain Legume Disease Management
- What will it take to make food systems work for women?
- Kenya Clears Path for Field Trials of Gene-Edited Banana
- Risk of Famine persists as nearly 19.5 million people face acute food insecurity in Sudan
- Save the Date: 8th Asian Short Course on Agribiotechnology, Biosafety Regulation, and Communication
- IFAD, Viet Nam and the GCF launch US$102 million climate investment to protect forests and boost rural incomes
- ICRISAT and Rajasthan Government Forge Strategic Alliance at GRAM 2026 Investor Meet to Transform Dryland Agriculture
- Climate-smart rice systems could help curb malaria and other vector-borne diseases
- FAO Food Price Index up for third consecutive month largely on rising vegetable oil prices
- Factors influencing Newcastle disease vaccine use in village chicken flocks in rural Burkina Faso
- New report urges urgent, coordinated financing to reverse rising hunger and transform agrifood systems across Africa
Scientific news
- Breeding for next-generation biotic stress-tolerant pigeonpea for sustainable food legume production
- Reprogramming immunity: TAL effector-informed genome editing in rice and other crops
- Molecular and metabolic regulation of anthocyanin accumulation under phosphorus stress in purple-fleshed sweet potato
- Comprehensive analysis of VOZ proteins in sweet potato and related species reveals their evolutionary dynamics and responses to abiotic stresses
- Subsurface soil inorganic carbon gains offset half of surface losses in China’s upland croplands over the last four decades
- Metabolomics and transcriptomics analyses reveal quality differences in forage-grain ratoon rice under varying mowing stages
- Multiplexed CRISPR base editing enables pulse-activated irreversible biocontainment of engineered bacteria Open Access
- Discovery of cold tolerance genes and favorable alleles in Kam sweet rice across various growth stages
- Integration of Ty-1/Ty-3 and Ty-6 confers improved and durable resistance to highly pathogenic begomoviruses in tomato
- Integrated physiological, biochemical and hormonal traits determine drought tolerance and yield stability in cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.)
- Advances and prospects of genomic-assisted breeding in roots, tubers, and banana crops
- Unlocking genetic diversity in Colombian cassava landraces for accelerated breeding
- An auxin-induced transcriptional cascade CmBES1–CmSAUR66 orchestrates the ray floret development in Chrysanthemum morifolium
- Targeted knockout of a host peroxisomal peptidase confers field resistance to maize lethal necrosis
- First brassinosteroid-based dwarf mutant discovered and characterized in grapevine
Tuesday, 26-05-2026 | 00:46
Dawn breaks over the lush, green fields of the country of 1 000 hills. As the sun rises, the ethereal mists shrouding the hilltops begin to lift, signalling another day for Rwanda’s agricultural workers.Tea leaves shimmer in the rising sun as tea pluckers don their colourful yellow protective gear, safeguarding them from scratches as they plunge into verdant rows of tea plants. A wicker basket is strapped to their backs, ready to collect the leaves they expertly pluck.
Breeding for next-generation biotic stress-tolerant pigeonpea for sustainable food legume production
Tuesday, 26-05-2026 | 00:48
Pigeonpea, scientifically known as Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp, is an important leguminous crop grown in tropical and subtropical areas. However, its production is increasingly threatened by biotic stresses, including sterility mosaic disease (SMD), fusarium wilt (FW), Helicoverpa armigera, Maruca vitrata, and other emerging plant pathogens, posing significant challenges to its sustainability. The pigeonpea gene pool exhibits considerable genetic diversity for biotic stress resistance, offering potential for developing resistant cultivars.
Tuesday, 26-05-2026 | 00:47
Four prominent European plant biotechnology associations have issued a joint open letter urging members of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI) to swiftly pass a pending compromise regulation on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). The letter, dated May 15, 2026, was signed by the French Association of Plant Biotechnologies (AFBV), Forum Grüne Vernunft (FGV), the Society for Plant Biotechnology (GfPB), and the Genomics and Genetic Engineering Research Circle (WGG).
Home
Seminar and Workshop in February 2023
Tuesday, 30/09/2025 | 01:22:56
Seminar and Workshop in January in 2023
Tuesday, 30/09/2025 | 01:23:16
The IAS Research Activities In 2024
Tuesday, 30/09/2025 | 01:24:19
Highlight On Research & Development Activities By IAS in 2023
Tuesday, 30/09/2025 | 01:24:53
2025 Agriculture Report - Spectacular Breakthrough
Friday, 30/01/2026 | 00:41:58
Vietnam Agriculture In 2024: Accelerate Creativity & Sustainable Efficiency
Monday, 29/09/2025 | 09:06:37
VIETNAM AGRICULTURE IN 2023 SHIFTING TO INTELLIGENT PRODUCTION
Monday, 29/09/2025 | 09:09:38
Vietnam agriculture in 2022: Switching to an agricultural economy
Monday, 29/09/2025 | 09:11:28
Photo gallery
Tracking
-
Online:11
-
All:687277