Monday, 2 February 2026
By Dr Shivendra Bajaj, Executive Director, Federation of Seed Industry of India and Alliance for Agri Innovation Since the first genetically modified (GM) crops for sale to consumers were sown…
Participating countries to deliberate upon the pivotal issues related to the development, conservation and protection of Plant Genetic Resources for the benefit of farming community India hosts the 9th Session of…
The Central Island Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-CIARI), Port Blair has establish a Pandanus Gene Bank at its Garacharma Research Farm under the project funded by National Medicinal Plants Board, New…
Recently, the Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU) released eleven new and improved rice varieties that are resilient to climate change, disease-tolerant, high yielding with great nutritional value, and…
Seed funding was led by Ankur Capital to build a platform for the discovery of new sustainable crop varieties. India/UK-based Agri-Genomics start up, Piatrika Biosystems has raised $1.2 million in…
The training will be imparted to ICAR-IISR scientists in the field of CRISPER Cas Genome Editing Technology for Soybean improvement. The ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore, Madhya Pradesh signed…
The 7-day online workshop was attended by over 350 young researchers and faculty members belonging to the various fields of biotechnology A “National Workshop-cum-Webinar on Genome Editing” has been organised…
As part of this agreement, Corteva and MS Technologies have licensed the Enlist E3 soybean trait to BASF for development with the NRS trait in BASF germplasm Corteva Agriscience, BASF…
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted the company a patent for its Pod Shatter Reduction (PSR) Trait. Cibus, a leader in precision gene editing in agriculture, announced that…
Chickpea researchers got an opportunity to observe in person and select desirable germplasm among over 10,000 accessions that originated in more than 50 countries. With an aim to enhance use…
A total of 27 new varieties, were validated as nominated by more than nine Indian National Agricultural Research & Education System (NARES) breeding network partners. Researchers in India have identified…
A nano aquarium was also unveiled at the VGP Marine Kingdom Anitha R Radhakrishnan, Minister for Fisheries & Animal Husbandry, Government of Tamil Nadu has launched the hatchery bred marine…
Discusses various initiatives to increase cooperation in the dairy sector through R&D, genetic improvement, and trade and investment Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala recently visited…
The whole-genome information of an aquaculture species has potential applications in the genomic selection and breeding of fish for sustainable production and improvement in the desirable traits like disease resistance…
