Farmers can grow big, juicy tomatoes thanks to a mutation in the Cell Size Regulator gene that occurred during the tomato domestication process. The researchers describe this gene variant in a study published in open-access journal PLOS Genetics on August , 2017. When humans first began cultivating the wild tomato in the …
Growing organic rice has the potential to become a market niche providing good purchase prices for the farmers, but growing organic rice requires much more than just sowing the seeds and letting the plants grow until harvest time. Scientists from Texas A & M AgriLife Research and Extension Center-Beaumont are …
According to the Agriculture Directorate of the European Commission, sunflower production in Bulgaria is expected to reach a 24-year peak of 2.08 million tons in 2017. The forecast sunflower seed output in Bulgaria in 2017 is 15.7% higher year-on-year, which is the highest growth rate among EU Member States, the …
Researchers in China have developed a genetic engineering approach capable of delivering many genes at once and used it to make rice endosperm (seed tissue that provides nutrients to the developing plant embryo) produce high levels of antioxidant-boosting pigments called anthocyanins. The resulting purple endosperm rice holds potential for decreasing …
Date: 29.09.2017 Time: 17-22h Venue: Agrobioinstitute, 8 bul. Dragan Tzankov, Sofia, Bulgaria Topic: Plants-biodiversity and use You can meet scientists from: Agrobioinstitute (ABI), Sofia, Agricultural Academy Institute of cryobiology and food technology (ICFT), Sofia, Academy Institute of ornamental plants (IOP), Negovan, Agricultural Academy Biological faculty(BF), Sofia University PROGRAM Scientific …
Researchers from Japan have discovered a new, yet simple, way to increase drought tolerance in a wide range of plants. Published in Nature Plants, the study reports a newly discovered biological pathway that is activated in times of drought. By working out the details of this pathway, scientists were able …
A high quality genome sequence of apple is published in Nature Genetics by an international team of scientists from France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and South Africa. The publication of the sequence facilitates faster and more targeted breeding of new apple varieties with increased disease resistance and better fruit quality. …
Imaginature Ltd is a company specialized in cut-flower development. Recently, the company has applied for approval from the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) in Kenya for open field trials related to growing GM Gypsophila in the country. Usually the flowers of Gypsophila or also known as “Baby’s Breath” are white in …
In a recent study published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal, a team of Chinese researchers with Pengcheng Wang as a leading author from the Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, presented a successful attempt to simultaneously edit several loci in the genome of cotton. For this purpose, the scientists have …
The completion of the chickpea genome sequencing a few years ago opened new horizons for the scientists to both further study the function of the identified genes and for respective crop improvement based on the obtained knowledge. According to Bunyamin Tar’an, associate professor and chickpea breeder at the University of …
