Under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded Fertilize Right (FerRight) project, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), in collaboration with the Plant Production and Protection Department (PPD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE) and the Department of Agriculture and Environment (DAE) of Can Tho City, teamed up to scale efforts in implementing a government program that focuses on the sustainable development of one million hectares of low-emission rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta region by 2030 (the 1mHa Program).

With an exceptional energy density and high polyunsaturated fatty acid content, maize oil positions high-oil maize as multifunctional feedstocks. Exploring the genetic architecture of oil content (OC) in maize kernel is crucial for breeding high-oil maize varieties. Herein, a combination of genome-wide association study and linkage mapping was employed to explore the quantitative trait loci (QTL) and candidate genes underlying the OC in maize kernel under four environments.

A team of engineers at the University of Florida has developed the world's first CRISPR system that uses DNA instead of RNA to guide gene-editing enzymes. Published in Nature Biotechnology, the breakthrough challenges the long-standing assumption that RNA must be used as the guide in CRISPR-based RNA editing tools.