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#ModelOrganisms #GeneticManipulation #Neuroscience #ResearchTechnologies Fruit flies, also known as Drosophila spp., have been an important model organism in biological research for over a century. Despite their small size, these insects have provided ...

Rice is one of the most important crops in the world and constitutes the primary food source for over half of Earth's population. Protecting rice plantations from disease is therefore an essential ...

Iowa State University researchers may have solved a long-standing challenge associated with accelerated development of pure genetic lines. Use of "doubled haploid" (DH) genetics has become one of the basic technologies underpinning ...

Chloroplasts of algae and plants are the cellular engines that convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. These organelles, bounded by an envelope with two membranes, contain their own genome whose ...

For thousands of years, crops have been shaped by domestication processes. Farmers cross-breed and select new varieties, adapted to constantly changing environments. Although efficient, this process is time consuming. Moreover, the desired ...

In the 21st century, "collaboration" has become a popular buzzword, but effectively working together across disciplines and countries is easier said than done. However, authentic collaboration is critical to the fight against ...

A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant populations, according to a new study published November 29 in the open ...

Drone technology saves time, improves production Trial-and-error research is a time-honored tradition, but with the global population now at 7.9 billion – and expected to top 9.7 billion by 2050 – time ...

A transnational team of European researchers has discovered solanimycin, a new antifungal antibiotic. The substance, which was first isolated from a pathogenic bacterium that infects potatoes, seems to be produced by a ...

The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance has led researchers to search for new compounds everywhere. This week in mBio, a multinational team of researchers in Europe report the discovery of a new antifungal antibiotic ...

Ernst-Jan Eggers1,2, Ate van der Burgt1, Sjaak A. W. van Heusden2, Michiel E. de Vries@ 1, Richard G. F. Visser©2, Christian W. B. Bachem©2и & Pim Lindhout1 Genetic gain in potato is hampered by the ...

THE SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS IN PERU—On a bleak, brown hill here, David Ellis examines a test plot of potato plants and shakes his head. "They're dead, dead, dead," he says. Pests and ...

The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides, making the insect a “super pest” that wreaks havoc on potatoes around the world. New research finds ...

Root lesion nematode is a tiny pest, about one millimetre in length. But it has an outsized ability to damage potatoes in Canada. The reason? It’s part of a complex of pests ...

An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration. The agri-tech innovation hopes to give farmers a way to ...

John Innes Centre team isolated and tested hundreds of strains of Pseudomonas bacteria from the soil of a commercial potato field

Abstract Potato wart disease is considered one of the most important quarantine pests for cultivated potato and is caused by the obligate biotrophic chytrid fungus Synchytrium endobioticum. This review integrates observations from early potato ...

Researchers from breeding company Solynta and Wageningen University & Research have identified, cloned and characterized the key gene for self-fertilization in diploid potatoes. This discovery makes it possible to fertilize potato plants with their own pollen. Now SLI gene ( S-locus inhibitor) ...

China's scientists have developed a generation of "pure and fertile potato lines" with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement.

The Colorado potato beetle is a major pest in North America that can reduce potato yields by 30-50% if unchecked. Control has historically relied heavily upon the use of pesticides, but failure ...

North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the ...

Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics ...

Plant pathologists studied the genomes of about 140 pathogen samples – historic and modern – from 37 countries on six continents to track the evolution of differing strains of Phytophthora infestans, a major ...

demonstrate the tolerance of some varieties after having subjected them to a water deficit

α-solanine, a toxic compound found in potato plants, is derived from the bitter-tasting α-tomatine