The first pearl millet hybrid – called Nafagnon - was released in Burkina Faso, West Africa. It was developed by ICRISAT-Africa and the Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA) in Burkina Faso. The…
Rising global temperatures are one of the main factors in declining yields. The agricultural sector must adapt to climate change in order to secure food in future. The use of modified varieties can make a major…
German and Chinese researchers have found out that maize can attract soil bacteria which help the plants to grow better. Their findings could enable plants to be bred which require less fertiliser and are therefore less…
An international team of scientists have successfully developed cassava with high-level resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), as well as with higher levels of iron and zinc.
A previously unknown root trait allows some cereal plants to grow deeper roots capable of punching through dry, hard, compacted soils, according to researchers of Pennsylvania State University (U.S.A.), who suggest that…
How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change was the topic of this year’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture – GFFA. The Expert Panel of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)…
Researchers from Austria, China and Japan identified a bacterium in rice seeds that can lead to complete resistance to a specific pathogen and is naturally transmitted from one generation of plants to another.
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) developed three CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm-tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa.
Researchers have discovered how a protein in plant roots controls the uptake of minerals and water, a finding which could improve the tolerance of agricultural crops to climate change and reduce the need for chemical…
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