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Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:35 PM

Plant Breeding

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Name: Plant Breeding

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

New research club to tackle crop genetics

A NEW club of British scientists has been set up and handed £6 million to identify and develop crop genetics to sustainably increase yields.The Crop Improvement Research Club (CIRC) is led by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Farmers Guardian]

Entities: Genetics, Barley, Wheat, Rape

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

Research and Markets: The Handbook of Plant Mutation Screening: Mining of Natural and Induced Alleles

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6a01b2/the_handbook_of_pl) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report 'The Handbook of Plant Mutation Screening: Mining of Natural and Induced Alleles' to their offering.Induced ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by RBC Dain Rauscher]

Entities: Mutation, Alleles, Mutagenesis

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

GIPB Presents National Plant Breeding Programs of 35 Countries

The Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB) announced the presentation of national plant breeding programs of 35 countries in the GIPB website. In each country folder, information is provided on the brief background of ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by CropBiotech Update]

Entities: Plant Breeding, Agriculture

First Reported Feb 26 2010 - Updated Feb 26 2010 - 1 Documents

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ExplorACES Scheduled for March 12 and 13

Illinois Ag News HeadlinesIllinois Ag Connection - 02/25/2010ExplorACES is a two-day event designed to introduce high school students and their families with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of ... [Published Feb 26 2010 by USAgNet]

Entities: Plant Breeding, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois

First Reported Feb 25 2010 - Updated Feb 25 2010 - 1 Documents

Food for Africa

By Andrew Tayton and Dulcie KrigeAfrica, as we all know only too well, is a continent with severe agricultural problems such as widespread poor soils and water deficits. In addition the problems of poverty make transport and marketing of food crops far ... [Published Feb 25 2010 by Thought Leader]

Entities: Species, Desmodium, Biotechnology

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

East West Seeds opens P80-M R&D Center

East West Seeds Corp. (EWSC), a pioneering hybrid vegetable seed producer, has opened an P80 million research and development (R&D) facility in Lipa, Batangas which is the most sophisticated privately-owned R&D facility in the Philippines as it aims to ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Manila Bulletin]

Entities: Plant Breeding, Philippines, Batangas (Philippines)

First Reported Feb 23 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 1 Documents

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

New initiative launched to harness biotechnology

SANGAREDDY: The Molecular Breeding Platform (MBP), a one-stop shop for information, analytical tools and related services to design and efficiently conduct molecular-assisted breeding experiments aims to increase breeding efficiency in developing cou ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by The Hindu]

Entities: Consultative Group on International Agricultura..., Biotechnology, Plant Breeding

First Reported Feb 21 2010 - Updated Feb 21 2010 - 1 Documents

High yielding paddy breeding at PRS

Kannur, Feb 20 : Realizing the location-specific problem of small and marginal farmers, Pepper Research station (PRS),Panniyur, coming under Kerala Agricultural University(KAU), had started a challenging integrated plant breeding project to develop high ... [Published Feb 21 2010 by NewKerala.com]

Entities: Plant Breeding, Cultivation, Kerala Agricultural University, Kannur (Kerala, India), Salinity

First Reported Feb 21 2010 - Updated Feb 21 2010 - 1 Documents

High-yield rice varieties

KANNUR: Two high-yielding varieties of rice suited for kaipad fields (brackish water marshes) have been developed by the Kerala Agricultural Universitys Pepper Research Station (PRS) at Panniyur here. The new varieties, named Ezhome-1 and Ezhome-2, have ... [Published Feb 21 2010 by The Hindu]

Entities: Plant Breeding, Kannur (Kerala, India)

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Scientists collect palace award

Scientists collect award from Buckingham PalaceScientists at Aberystwyth University are at Buckingham Palace to receive a prestigious UK educational award.The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (Ibers) is developing new plants in ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by BBC]

Entities: Plant Breeding, Wayne Powell, Aberystwyth (United Kingdom), Aberystwyth University

First Reported Feb 18 2010 - Updated Feb 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Icrisat sets up molecular breeding platform

- Agricultural Institutions Our BureauHyderabad, Feb. 18Generation Challenge Programme, a consortium of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGAIR) institutes and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat), ... [Published Feb 18 2010 by Hindu Business Line]

Entities: International Crops Research Institute for the ..., Consultative Group on International Agricultura..., Molecular Genetics, Plant Breeding

First Reported Feb 17 2010 - Updated Feb 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Challenges Reshape Tobacco Production Landscape

Published by the government of Zimbabwe Harare THE Tobacco Research Board is yet to recoup its lost status after emerging battered and bruised from a decade of economic distress, which has grossly dented its capacity to among other things, develop new ... [Published Feb 17 2010 by AllAfrica.com]

Entities: Tobacco, Allotment, Plant Breeding, Zimbabwe

Quotes

Mr Leggott, the newly appointed Vice Chairman, said: "There are a number of challenges ahead in looking forward to a vibrant viable future in a profitable combinable crops sector including the Sustainable Use Directive and Water Framework Directive. I plan on working hard to get the best result for our sector on renewables, particularly British sourced biofuel and biomass as an essential and increasingly important part of agriculture."

Ian Backhouse re-elected as Combinable Crops Board Chairman [Farm Business - Mar 17 2010]

"Through the Crop Improvement Research Club, plant breeding companies are working with BBSRC and the Scottish Government to fund projects that will make an impact on the quality and yields of wheat, barley and oilseed rape varieties that farmers will be growing in the future."

New research initiative launched to accelerate development of improved crops [News-Medical.Net - Mar 16 2010]

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Ian Backhouse re-elected as Combinable Crops Bo... [Farm Business - Mar 17 2010]
Biological Sciences and Botanic Garden reap fru... [University Of Bristol - Mar 17 2010]
New research initiative launched to accelerate ... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 16 2010]
New research club to tackle crop genetics [Farmers Guardian - Mar 15 2010]
Enjoying the fruits of their labour in the Wels... [Farmers Guardian - Mar 12 2010]
Research and Markets: The Handbook of Plant Mut... [RBC Dain Rauscher - Mar 12 2010]
Arcadia Biosciences Completes First Commercial ... [FinanzNachrichten.de - Mar 12 2010]
GM crops: consumers vs the multinationals? [Sideways News - Mar 12 2010]
Research partnership to develop improved crops ... [Farm Business - Mar 11 2010]
Breeders confident genetics can help progress b... [Farmers Guardian - Mar 10 2010]
NSIC okays new garden pea, snap bean varieties ... [Baguio Midland Courier - Mar 09 2010]
Rural roundup: Super grass, wool skepticism, ke... [Interest.co.nz - Mar 05 2010]
Roots Key to Second Green Revolution [USAgNet - Mar 05 2010]
Asian soybean rust Brazil’s main yield robber [AGRINews - Mar 04 2010]
Attack of the Frankenfish [Atlantic Monthly - Mar 03 2010]
US: Plant scientists use breeding techniques to... [Fresh Plaza - Mar 03 2010]
European Commission exceeding its powers to app... [Indymedia Ireland - Mar 03 2010]
Country to Host Agro-Biotechnology Meeting [AllAfrica.com - Mar 03 2010]
GE plants promoted as 'cisgenic' [New Zealand Herald - Mar 01 2010]
GE pastures on the cards for NZ farmers [3 News - Mar 01 2010]
GE pastures eyed for NZ farmers (NZPA) [Yahoo! News Australia - Mar 01 2010]
'Super-grass' aims to boost milk production [stuff.co.nz - Mar 01 2010]
Cows fed 'super-grass' could produce more milk [3 News - Mar 01 2010]
Researchers working on GE super-grass [ONE News - Mar 01 2010]
Aussies researching super-grass pastures [Melbourne Age - Mar 01 2010]
IBERS sanctioned [Pitch-Care.com - Feb 28 2010]
Monsanto bets that global warming is real [STLtoday.com - Feb 27 2010]
ExplorACES Scheduled for March 12 and 13 [USAgNet - Feb 26 2010]
Heavy focus on research boosts Brazil production [AGRINews - Feb 25 2010]
Food for Africa [Thought Leader - Feb 25 2010]

Blogs

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GIPB Presents National Plant Breeding Programs ... [CropBiotech Update - Mar 12 2010] The Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB) announced the presentation of national plant breeding programs of 35 countries in the ...
Scientists support progress on GM canola in WA [GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - Mar 05 2010] Friday 5 March 2010MEDIA RELEASEJOINT STATEMENT: Scientists support progress on GM canola in WAInfluential agricultural science specialists from across Australia ...
Perennial Plants from Seed [Casaubon's Book] [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Feb 18 2010] Note: This is a repost from ye olde blogge (which, I am informed by the kind gentleman who is helping me debut it will be back to function by early next week - thank ...
How to breed Tomatoes and Potatoes [Tomorrow's ... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Jan 12 2010] My fabulous former student Karl Haro von Mogel has just posted another one of his plant breeding videos, this time on tomato and potato breeding. Check it out! Read ...
Reader Mailbag #95 [The Simple Dollar - Dec 28 2009] Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many ...