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Danforth Center Scientist Receives $1.4M Grant To Develop Smart Farm Technology
The National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation has awarded Nadia Shakoor, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Antifungal Symbiotic Peptide In Legume
Danforth Center scientists, Dilip Shah, PhD, Siva Velivelli, PhD, Kirk Czymmek, PhD, and their collaborators at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have identified a sub class of peptides in the...
View ArticleAgTech NEXT Summit Goes Virtual
Virtual AgTech NEXT conference sessions will be held from 12 - 1 PM CDT on Tuesdays, beginning September 22 with a keynote by Dr. Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods through November 10.
View ArticleDanforth Center Scientists Collaborate On $13 Million Bioenergy Project
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a five-year, $13 million grant to a nationwide research project to genetically strengthen Thlaspi arvense, commonly known as pennycress, for use in...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Why of Potato Virus Y
Potatoes are a multi-billion-dollar crop in the US. Potato harvests can be reduced by up to 80 percent because of disease caused by Potato virus Y (PVY) that attacks both the tubers and leaves.
View ArticleShaping the Future of Food
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced the lineup of TableTalks, a series of conversations shaping the future of food that will follow each AgTech NEXT conference session on Tuesdays,...
View ArticleDanforth Center Scientists Collaborate On A $20 Million Nationwide Artificial...
Todd Mockler, PhD, will co-lead a research team applying AI approaches to extract plant phenotypes, from sensor data sets in order to accelerate crop improvement, with a focus on enhancing nitrogen and...
View ArticleCan Plant-Based Protein Replace Animal Protein in the Food System?
Dr. Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods will share his belief that plant-based protein will match the sensory, nutritional value and price requirements consumers desire, and replace meat...
View ArticleShattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
Researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and DOE Joint Genome Institute generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a...
View ArticleRegulators Classify Gene-Edited Rice Varieties with Disease Resistance as...
The Healthy Crops team, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have used gene editing tools to develop new varieties of disease-resistant rice that regulators in the United States...
View ArticleCoverCress Announces Cover Crop Carbon-Sequestration Collaboration with Salk...
CoverCress, Inc., announced a new collaboration with the Salk Institute to improve plant yield, soil health and soil organic carbon storage in cover crops via cutting-edge technologies developed by the...
View ArticleInternational Group of Scientists Explain the Advantages of Using Metabolic...
In a perspective paper, "Multiplying the efficiency and impact of biofortification through metabolic engineering," published in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists, led by Ghent...
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Infertile Spikelets Contribute To Yield In Sorghum And...
The researchers used radioactive and stable isotopes of carbon, RNA-seq of metabolically important enzymes, and immunolocalization of Rubisco to show that the sterile spikelet collects carbon from the...
View ArticlePlastomics Awarded Competitive Grant from the United Soybean Board
Plastomics Inc., an agricultural biotech start-up developing the next generation of trait delivery technology, has been awarded a competitive grant from the United Soybean Board (USB) to develop...
View ArticleInternational Team is the First to Successfully Stack Virus Resistance Plus...
For the first time, an international team of scientists have developed cassava displaying high-level resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD), cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) as well as higher...
View ArticleTwo Danforth Center Scientists Receive Prestigious Awards Recognizing Their...
Andrea Eveland received the Marcus Rhoades Early Career Award at the 63rd Maize Genetics Conference. Malia Gehan received the 2021 North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN) Early Career Award at...
View ArticlePlastomics and Evogene's Ag-Seed division enter a collaborative agreement...
Plastomics, Inc. and Evogene Ltd.'s Ag-Seed division announced a collaboration agreement targeting novel insect control traits for soybean. .
View ArticlePlastomics Enters Agreement with Amfora for Soybean Protein Enhancement
Plastomics will use its proprietary transformation technologies to introduce Amfora gene-editing constructs into high performance soybean germplasm.
View ArticleDanforth Center and international partners unveil landmark insect resistant...
Nigeria has achieved a major milestone in the history of agricultural research and development with the commercial launch of Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea.
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