Tag: agriculture
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Seedless Fruit Varieties Seen As Food Security Boost
A review of studies evaluating techniques for producing seedless fruit concludes these techniques can contribute to higher yields that help ensure the security of food supplies.
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Spinach Enhanced to Detect Chemicals, Send Signals
A chemical engineering group showed the feasibility of embedding sensors in common spinach plants that can detect and signal the presence of explosive chemicals in the soil.
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Vaccine Stops Livestock Infections Without Antibiotics
A veterinary medical team at Kansas State University developed a vaccine that protects livestock against dangerous liver and skin infections without antibiotics.
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Monsanto Licensing MIT/Harvard Genome Editing
Monsanto Company is licensing genomic editing technology for agricultural applications from a joint research center at Harvard University and MIT.
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Small Business Grant Funds Natural Dyes Crop Research
A company making natural dyes for clothing and a plant science research center are discovering genomic processes to improve plants producing indigo, the dye giving blue jeans its color.
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GMOs, 3D-Printed Chocolate, And The Rapid Development Of Food Technology
New, emerging technology is assisting us to analyze, track and organize the way we produce and consume food.
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Danforth Center, Valent Partner on Underground Plant Imaging
A plant science center and crop science company are developing a large-scale X-ray imaging system to measure root development in plants.
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Animal-Free Leather Company Gains $40M in Venture Funds
A company making leather for consumer goods with tissue engineering and gene-editing from living cells is raising $40 million in its second venture round.
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Smart Laser Device Tracks, Kills Mosquitoes
23 May 2016. Tests with two species of insects show an electronic device called a photonic fence can identify, track, and kill harmful bugs while in flight. Results of the tests, conducted by Intellectual Ventures Laboratory in Bellevue, Washington, developer of the photonic fence, appear in this week’s issue of Optics Express, published by the…
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Genetic Techniques Quickly Build Crop Disease Resistance
26 April 2016. Plant scientists in the U.K. developed genetic engineering techniques that quickly clone resistance to plant diseases affecting wheat, soybeans, and potatoes. The techniques are described in articles appearing in the 25 April issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology (paid subscription required). Teams from the John Innes Centre and Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich…