Selection Reshapes the Wheat Genome in Just Three Rounds of Breeding
A decade-long analysis of Ohio State's wheat breeding program reveals that just three rounds of field selection shifted allele frequencies ...
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How an Ancient Chemical Weapon Shapes Defense in the World’s Great Cereal Crops
A new review in Plant Cell Reports maps how the benzoxazinoid defense pathway evolved differently across maize, wheat, and rice, ...
CRISPR Multiplex Gene Editing Rewrites the Rules of Crop Breeding
A new review details how CRISPR-based multiplex genome editing is enabling breeders to stack disease resistance, yield and quality traits ...
Drones and Attention-Powered AI Count Every Wheat Tiller From the Sky
Researchers in South Dakota combined drone multispectral imagery with an attention-enhanced deep learning model to estimate wheat tiller density with ...
Wheat’s LIFEGUARD Gene TaLFG32 Emerges as a Hidden Ally of Stripe Rust
Researchers in China have identified 32 wheat LIFEGUARD genes and shown that the membrane protein TaLFG32 suppresses reactive oxygen species ...
Crop genomics pioneer Rajeev Varshney elected Fellow of Australia’s technology academy
Murdoch University crop geneticist Professor Rajeev Varshney has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and ...
Pest Control Saved China Nearly 198 Million Tons of Grain in 2024
A nationwide Chinese evaluation found that controlling diseases, insect pests, and weeds contributed 30.56 percent of wheat, rice, and maize ...
New Machine-Learning Pipeline Takes the Guesswork Out of Genomic Prediction
An open-source pipeline called GenoBridge automatically adapts machine-learning models to sample size, matching hand-tuned genomic prediction accuracy while delivering calibrated ...
Ancient and Modern Wheat Take Opposite Chemical Routes When Fed Beneficial Microbes
A 40-day greenhouse study shows that a Bacillus-based endophytic biopreparation drives modern bread wheat toward layered physical defenses while ancient ...
Ancient Chinese Wheat Yields a Genetic Key to More Grain Per Plant
Researchers identified and validated a major chromosome 5D locus, QPTN.sicau-CEW-5D, that stably controls productive tiller number in Chinese endemic wheat ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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