THE EUROPEAN UNION FACES A FRESH BATTLE OVER NEX-GENERATION PLANT-BREEDING TECHNIQUES

European Union

PLANT GENETICS : CZECH CENTRE MARKS MENDEL ANNIVERSARY

Mendel

THE EMERGENCE OF NEW CROP PESTS : GENETICS IN ACTION

Crop pests

GENEBANK STANDARDS FOR PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES

Genebanks

Parallel domestication of the Shattering1 genes in cereals

A key step during crop domestication...

Genetic behaviour for plant capacity to produce chlorophyll in wheat (Triticum aestivum) under drought stress

Drought stress.

Genetic fingerprint reveals new efficient maize cultivars

The parent's performance has little to do with the child's sucess-at least in maize....

Genetic information migrates from plant to plant

Plant scientists were confounded...

A walk on wild side

Feeding a growing population...

Fatty acid production in genetically modified cyanobacteria

...Our results suggest...a promising technology for renewable biofuel production.

Crop Breeding Gets Boost from Sweet Potatoes

A Ugandan study evaluates sweet potatoe genotypes for pest and disease resistence.

E. Coli Engineered to Produce Record-Setting Amounts of Alternative Fuel

Researchers at UCLA's...

Opportunities in wheat

Wheat.

Technique allows researchers to identify key maize genes for increased yield

A study published online in Nature Genetics...

Genetic engineering brings cloned crops closer

The production of exact genetic replicas of important food crops has come a step closer....

Gene helps crops use less water without biomass loss

Purdue University researchers...

Techique Allows Researchers to Identify Key Maize Genes for Increased Yield

Maize.

"To Serve and Conserve"

5 April 2011

Wageningen, the Netherlands

GENETIC CONTRIBUTION TO ADVANCED YIELD FOR MAYZE HYBRIDS RELEASED FROM 1970 TO 2000 IN CHINA

Mayze hybrids.

HUMAN EVOLUTION,MIGRATION AND HISTORY REVEALED BY GENETICS,IMMUNITY AND INFECTION

6-7 June 2011

The Royal Society,London