Monheim, September 2019 – Bayer announced today that it has opened the application window for its Grants4 initiative.

CannNext and Signify will research light recipes, climate settings and growing techniques to optimize production of specific cannabinoids for clinical research and development of medicines and medicinal applications.

Within the Zwaartekracht programme, Wageningen researchers prof. Marcel Dicke (Entomology) and prof. Christa Testerink (Plant Physiology) are partners in the huge scientific programme MiCRop.

Experts in plant pathology from Wageningen University & Research have published new research results that are so remarkable and unexpected that they will require changes to be made to teaching material and computer models related to plant pathology.

Research suggests that microbes in the soil, roots and leaves have important impacts on plant health and productivity.

Scientists can now explore the role of PLAT proteins in symbiosis, potentially exploiting them to create more efficient nitrogen-fixing legumes.

A team led by a plant pathologist at the University of California, Riverside, has identified a regulatory, genetic mechanism in plants that could help fight bacterial infection.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, will use the genomics of lettuce to combat a pathogen that causes losses in the $3 billion industry each year.

Lindsey du Toit, vegetable seed pathologist at Washington State University’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon, is a co-primary investigator on a $7.3 million, four-year grant to find the genetic traits that will make sweet corn taste better, last longer and grow better across the nation.

Two national research teams led by scientists at Washington State University will protect valuable U.S. grape, onion and garlic crops from devastating and fast-adapting pests and diseases, thanks to more than $5 million in Specialty Crop Research Initiative grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

A new discovery by Washington State University scientists could help grape growers roll back a devastating virus that withers vines and shrivels harvests.

Leading national efforts to save the onion industry from destructive pests and pathogens, a team of Washington State University researchers and extension specialists, working in concert with scientists and stakeholders across the country

Leading national efforts to save the onion industry from destructive pests and pathogens, a team of Washington State University researchers and extension specialists, working in concert with scientists and stakeholders across the country

Here’s some good news for conventional and organic farmers alike: Researchers at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy have discovered a way to cost-effectively produce the bioherbicide thaxtomins.

In the soils of the world's cereal fields, a family tussle between related species of fungi is underway for control of the crops' roots, with food security threatened if the wrong side wins. Beneficial fungi can help plants to protect themselves from cousins eager to overwhelm the roots, but it's a closely fought battle.

For decades, farmers have been spraying streptomycin on apple and pear trees to kill the bacteria that cause fire blight, a serious disease that costs over $100 million annually in the United States alone.

Pacific Northwest farmers have found success growing peonies for a thriving global market. But a devastating fungus called Botrytis is limiting market growth and profits for Northwest farmers.

Pacific Northwest farmers have found success growing peonies for a thriving global market. But a devastating fungus called Botrytis is limiting market growth and profits for Northwest farmers.

Ground was broken on the Texas A&M University West Campus in College Station Thursday for a $49 million Plant Pathology and Microbiology building, scheduled to be completed by May 2019.

At the RAB centre in Rubirizi, Kicukiro District the meeting was took place between officials from International Potato Centre (CIP) and Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB), during this meeting the call was made.

A Purdue University study confirms complex associations among plant hormones and their signaling pathways that are key to controlling plant architecture.

Researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will focus on identifying the benefits of cover crops.

Researchers at Oregon State University developing an on-site detection tool for crown gall disease, an incurable malady that affects numerous species of plants.

University of Florida scientists have developed a mandarin hybrid that seems to be winning the battle against citrus greening disease.

To submit insects and plants for identification and diseases for diagnosis, it is now simpler for Iowans.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist and associate professor of plant pathology and microbiology are making progress on developing new methods of creating carbon fiber out of biological plant waste.

Mushrooms is one of Pennsylvania's top agricultural crops. New construction and renovations are giving a boost to Penn State research and extension programming related to mushrooms.

Earlier this year, in the town on Central Islip, the Cornell University Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (CU-PDDC) used a new rapid test they developed to identify a small number of oak trees with oak wilt disease on Long Island.

URBANA, Ill : By 2050, the global population will have grown and urbanized so much that we will need to produce 87 percent more of the four primary food crops – rice, wheat, soy, and maize – than we do today. The climate is projected to change over the next 30 years, with warmer temperatures and more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

New simulations by researchers at the University of Warwick and UCL’s Institute of Archaeology of plant evolution over the last 3000 years have revealed an unexpected limit to how far useful crops can be pushed to adapt before they suffer population collapse.

The study was conducted by the United Soybean Board (USB) to understand the potential for cover crops to perform in a corn and soybean rotation, and to collect data on the performance of cover crops in those rotations in relation to the timing of termination.

To aimed at spurring growth in the plant biotech research sector in both Belgium and North Carolina, NC State University and VIB which is a life sciences research institute in Belgium, recently entered into a strategic collaboration agreement.

Beattie helped launch the Phytobiomes Roadmap, an effort initiated by the American Phytopathological Society and supported by over 20 scientific societies, companies, institutes and government agencies.

To make the Research Triangle a global hub for plant-related innovation, North Carolina State University advances in its quest. North Carolina State University recently launched a unique consortium to explore the soil microbiome. Soil microbiome are largely unknown world of microscopic organisms living in soil along plant roots.

Swapan Kumar Dutta, deputy director general (Crop Science) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) said that One can only delay the onset of diseases or minimize losses. Hence, new technologies like genetic modification (GM) as well-breeding techniques can be used to minimize such losses.

Researcher of UPM's Department of Plant Protection of the Faculty of Agriculture, Associate Prof. Dr. Kamaruzaman Sijam and a former PhD student, Dr. Farah Farhanah Haron, found solution to make fruit skins, stronger and durable against fungus attacks.

Wheat flag smut is a fungal disease caused by the fungus Urocystis tritici. Its spores are found in the soil, and they germinate just before wheat’s fall emergence.

Erick De Wolf, plant pathologist in the Kansas State University Department of Plant Pathology, said wheat flag smut has so far been a minor problem this year, with a few places that saw noticeable yield losses from the disease.

The newly found VRN-D4 gene and its three counterpart genes which were earlier identified are crucial for understanding wheat vernalisation, the biological process requiring cold temperatures to trigger flower formation, the study said.

Scientists of the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) have completed pre-clinical studies stating that the plant found in the Western Ghats has anti-diabetic properties.

The five-year-long study was based on the knowledge shared by T.M. Shahul Hamid, a traditional healer hailing from Karunagapally. “The trials have yielded promising results,” said P.G. Latha, Director, JNTBGRI.

Researchers at Washington State University have documented seven fungal species that cause cankers in grapevines. These new findings could reduce the incidence of grapevine trunk disease in Washington vineyards by preventing the problem before it becomes widespread.

Fungi infect the wood of grapevine trunks (or cordons) through pruning wounds, resulting in cankers that enlarge over time and ultimately kill the plant.

Few agribusinesses or governments regulate the types of plants that farmers use in their pastures to feed their livestock, according to an international team of researchers that includes one plant scientist from Virginia Tech. The problem is most of these so-called pasture plants are invasive weeds.

In one of a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, the scientists recommended tighter regulations, including a fee for damage to surrounding areas, evaluation of weed risk to the environment, a list of prohibited species based on this risk, and closer monitoring and control of natural area damage.