Monday, 15-06-2026 | 15:02
Twenty-seven favorable teosinte alleles reducing cadmium accumulation or enhancing tolerance were identified across 44 QTLs, and three promising candidate genes for the qCCA3-3 locus were further screened through integrated RNA-seq and qRT-PCR. Cadmium (Cd) contamination in agricultural soils poses serious threats to food security and human health through crop bioaccumulation.
Updated News
- Upgrading and Expanding the Digital System for Rice Production Activity Monitoring and Reporting (RiceMoRe)
- FAO Food Price Index broadly stable in May even as cereal quotations increase
- FAO calls for stronger prevention and global action as transboundary animal diseases spread across regions
- IFAD partners with Government of Ghana and World Bank to transform agri-food systems through AgriConnect Compact
- FAO Partnership Award honors logistics, youth innovation and integrated development
- ISAAA and MABIC Announce 2026 Asian Short Course in Malaysia
- Research Shows Drought-Stressed Canola, Tomatoes, and Rice Block Iron Uptake
- Study Finds Strong Public Support for GM Mosquitoes in Mali
- 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
Scientific news
- Virus-induced transgene- and tissue culture-free heritable genome editing in tomato
- Genetic basis of cadmium accumulation and tolerance in maize seedlings uncovered through integrated linkage mapping and transcriptome analysis
- Integrated Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-Type-Specific Immune Regulatory Networks in Maize Responding to Southern Corn Rust
- Comprehensive Evaluation of Bacterial Blight Resistance and Gene Distribution in Common Wild Rice (Oryza rufipogon) from Hainan Province, China
- Jacalin-Related Lectin OsJacLK1 Positively Regulates Resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae in Rice
- Inter-plot competition in hybrid maize multi-environment yield trials in Ethiopia can reduce rate of genetic gain
- Cashew Nut Oil Improves Lipid Metabolism and Fat Liver Deposition in High-Fat Diet-Fed C57BL/6J Mice
- A large-scale framework for estimating soil carbon, nitrogen, pH, and salinity dynamics for 1985–2023
- 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
Monday, 15-06-2026 | 08:00
The benchmark measure for world food commodity prices remained broadly stable in May, as declines in vegetable oil quotations offset increases in those for cereals and sugar, according to new data released Friday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Monday, 15-06-2026 | 08:02
Twenty-seven favorable teosinte alleles reducing cadmium accumulation or enhancing tolerance were identified across 44 QTLs, and three promising candidate genes for the qCCA3-3 locus were further screened through integrated RNA-seq and qRT-PCR. Cadmium (Cd) contamination in agricultural soils poses serious threats to food security and human health through crop bioaccumulation.
Monday, 15-06-2026 | 08:01
A research team led by Gao Caixia at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new genome engineering platform that enables multiple desirable traits to be combined in a single crop variety more efficiently. The platform, called TRIM, integrates gene knockout, small-scale precise sequence editing, and large-scale chromosome engineering into a single platform.




















