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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 27-Jun-2025 00:10 ET (27-Jun-2025 04:10 GMT/UTC)

The new FORSAID project sets out to innovate forest pest control in Europe

Pensoft Publishers
Business Announcement

The recently launched EU-funded FORSAID project seeks to uncover new horizons in pest control across Europe's forests. The research consortium behind this vision is comprised of 17 organisations from 10 countries. It intends to harness recent innovations in satellite observation, drone surveillance, robotics and artificial intelligence in pursuit of a new paradigm for the early detection and identification of numerous harmful species.

GenEditScan: novel k-mer analysis tool based on next-generation sequencing for foreign DNA detection in genome-edited products

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Reports and Proceedings

The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) has developed GenEditScan, a simple k-mer analysis tool and is available for free on GitHub website. k-mer analysis is used for detecting foreign DNA in genome-edited crops using next-generation sequencers. The publication of GenEditScan is expected to accelerate the research on genome-edited crops.

Funder: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Illinois research team to receive $5M to reduce synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in corn production

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $5 million in funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and partner institutions to develop a new variety of corn called NSave that will reduce nitrogen fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining crop yield.

Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy

Little birds, little poops, little food safety risk

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Smaller poops from smaller birds carry very low risk of foodborne pathogens on farms, finds a UC Davis study.

Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
Funder: Center for Produce Safety, California Department of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Metabolome and RNA-seq reveal discrepant metabolism and secretory metabolism profile in skeletal muscle between obese and lean pigs at different ages

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recently, Yulong Yin/Fengna Li from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper entitled "Metabolome and RNA-seq reveal discrepant metabolism and Metabolism" in SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. This study investigated the metabolic difference of longissimus dorsi muscle between Taoyuan black pigs (Chinese native breed, obese) and Duroc pigs (lean) at different ages, and revealed the mechanism of muscle-adipose tissue interaction mediated by muscle-derived secretory metabolites.

Journal: Science China Life Sciences

From lab to field: CABBI pipeline delivers oil-rich sorghum

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CABBI scientists have developed a lab-to-field pipeline to deliver sorghum that’s high in TAG. The researchers engineered sorghum to accumulate up to 5.5% dry weight TAG in its leaves and 3.5% dry weight in its stems under field conditions — 78 times and 58 times more than unmodified sorghum, respectively. This level of production could provide about 1.4 times more oil per hectare than soybeans, making this a promising new feedstock for renewable fuels.

Journal: Plant Biotechnology Journal

Snakes in potted olive trees ‘tip of the iceberg’ of ornamental plant trade hazards

University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Invasive pests are slipping unnoticed into northern Europe in huge shipments of cut flowers and potted plants, say researchers, with potential to damage food crops and the natural environment

Journal: BioScience
Funder: Arcadia Fund

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