Tuesday, 09-06-2026 | 08:20
Accurate and standardized phenotyping of complex, environmentally sensitive quantitative traits remains a major bottleneck for reliable locus discovery and breeding applications. Here, we established a skeleton-guided 3D digital phenotyping framework that generates standardized digital replicas and enables precise quantification of fruit and plant architecture traits in cucumber. The workflow was applied to a permanent recombinant inbred line (RIL) population (n = 211) evaluated across two seasons (2023–2024)
Updated News
- Rothamsted Research Drills First Precision-Bred Crop in Historic Field Trial
- Researchers Find Key Gene for Cadmium Tolerance and Accumulation in Rice
- FAO Report Calls for Urgent Coordinated Financing to Address Agrifood Challenges in Africa
- Ukraine to Harmonize GMO Regulations with EU by August 2026
- Nutrition-Sensitive Trade: What Zanzibar’s Dagaa Fishery Reveals About Food and Nutrition Security
- Closing the gender gap in agrifood systems can help reduce food insecurity and boost global GDP: FAO gender experts
- CRISPR Reduces Allergy Risk in Cultivated Beef Cells
- Pakistan Introduces Major Biosafety Reforms to GMO Regulation
- FAO Director-General calls for AI’s transformative power to be at the service of rural communities and a bridge towards shared prosperit
- Kenyan President calls for ambitious investment in IFAD14 at Africa Forward Summit
- ICRISAT Accelerated Crop Improvement (ACI) Overview
- Reviving Water, Restoring Landscapes: Livelihoods Improved After Six Years of Measurable Change in Central India
- New Fertilizer Supply Chain Network Formed to Support Vietnam's 1-Million-Hectare Rice Program
- Nutrition-Sensitive Trade: What Zanzibar’s Dagaa Fishery Reveals About Food and Nutrition Security
- Hilltops and teacups: How Rwanda is maximising its hilly landscape and boosting up small-scale farmers for quality tea production
Scientific news
- Skeleton-guided 3D digitization standardizes complex trait phenotyping and supports reproducible locus discovery in cucumber
- Os79, a UDP‐Glycosyltransferase, negatively regulates cadmium tolerance and accumulation in rice
- CRISPR/Cas9 mediated knockout of MeSSI enhances resistant starch content without compromising yield in cassava
- Genetic identification of Pid3-1 and its regulatory role in promoting blast resistance in rice
- CRISPR-Mediated Gene Editing for Inducing Thermosensitive Genic Male Sterility and Sheath Blight Resistance in Rice
- (E)-2-Hexenal Combats Rice Sheath Blight Through Direct Pathogen Inhibition and Host Defense Reprogramming
- Genetic mapping and diagnostic marker development for a co-localization interval conferring resistance to both Aspergillus flavus infection and aflatoxin production in peanut
- AI-designed OpenCRISPR-1 performs robust knockout, base editing, and prime editing in rice
- The effector NlOBP1b from the brown planthopper suppresses rice immunity by manipulating the OsCK2 complex
- OsCBL10 negatively regulates salt tolerance at seedling stage in rice
- Water stress tolerance, genomic selection and identification of genomic regions in a MAGIC population of eggplant
- Rorippa islandica is a genetically accessible dicot model system to study flooding tolerance
- Genetic dissection of oil content in maize kernel using combined genome-wide association analysis and linkage mapping
- A candidate gene marker at the red kidney color locus (Rk) enables the development of slow-darkening pink beans
- Breeding for next-generation biotic stress-tolerant pigeonpea for sustainable food legume production
Tuesday, 09-06-2026 | 01:17
Rothamsted Research has officially sown the UK's first crop under a new Precision Bred Organism (PBO) Release Notice, marking a major milestone for agricultural biotechnology. The proof-of-concept field trial has sown the oilseed crop Camelina sativa, to evaluate the real-world performance of gene-edited varieties. This historic planting is the first to be registered under the framework established by the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 and the subsequent 2025 regulations.
Tuesday, 09-06-2026 | 01:20
Accurate and standardized phenotyping of complex, environmentally sensitive quantitative traits remains a major bottleneck for reliable locus discovery and breeding applications. Here, we established a skeleton-guided 3D digital phenotyping framework that generates standardized digital replicas and enables precise quantification of fruit and plant architecture traits in cucumber. The workflow was applied to a permanent recombinant inbred line (RIL) population (n = 211) evaluated across two seasons (2023–2024)
Tuesday, 09-06-2026 | 01:19
Experts from Henan Agricultural University in China have identified a key wheat gene that helps regulate iron uptake and storage. The study focuses on the transcription factor TaPIL1, which plays a central role in activating iron-related responses in wheat plants. Their study is a breakthrough that could support efforts to breed more nutritious wheat varieties and address iron deficiency anemia.




















