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• DuPont and Evogene Enter Multiyear Collaboration for Soybean Rust Resistance

  DuPont and Evogene Ltd. announced a multiyear collaboration to improve resistance to soybean rust, one of the most devastating fungal diseases in soybean. Under the agreement, DuPont business, Pioneer Hi-Bred, and Evogene will collaborate to develop soybean varieties displaying in-plant resistance t more

• Cornell Chronicle: Leaf gene changes increase corn yield

  A study published in Nature Genetics has identified the genes related to leaf angle in corn (maize) - a key trait for planting crops closer together, which has led to an eight-fold increase in yield since the early 1900s. The study, led by researchers from Cornell and the U.S. Department of Agr more

• Bayer CropScience invests EUR 12 million in expansion of Nunhems research facilities in the Netherlands

  Bayer CropScience’s vegetable seed business Nunhems will invest EUR 12 million in the expansion and modernization of its research center in the municipality of Leudal, the Netherlands. The existing research building will be enlarged from 2,200 square meters to a total size of 6,400 square meters and more

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• Cotton GhBAK1 mediates Verticillium wilt resistance and cell death

  Abstract Virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) offers a powerful approach for functional analysis of individual genes by knocking down their expression. We have adopted this approach to dissect gene functions in cotton resistant to Verticillium wilt, one of the most devastating diseases worldwide more

• Genetic Requirements for Signaling from an Autoactive Plant NB-LRR Intracellular Innate Immune Receptor

  by Melinda Roberts, Saijun Tang, Anna Stallmann, Jeffery L. Dangl, Vera Bonardi Plants react to pathogen attack via recognition of, and response to, pathogen-specific molecules at the cell surface and inside the cell. Pathogen effectors (virulence factors) are monitored by intracellular nucleotid more

• Perception of low Red:Far‐red ratio compromises both salicylic acid‐ and jasmonic acid‐dependent pathogen defences in Arabidopsis

  Summary In dense stands of plants, such as agricultural monocultures, plants are simultaneously exposed to competition for light and other stresses like pathogen infection. Here, we show that both salicylic acid (SA)‐dependent and jasmonic acid (JA)‐dependent disease resistance is inhibited by a more

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