July 28, 2026

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Carrie Miranda Dottey, North Dakota State University's soybean breeder, working to make NDSU soybean varieties competitive with private companies' (AgUpdate)

Turning AI plant science into a commercial tool: Heritable Agriculture’s next chapter (AgWeb)

Outliers matter: Kent Bradford, UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus, shifts data from statistical ‘noise’ to biological mechanism - His new book urges a new view of variation in almost everything

July 27, 2026

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Computomics Podcast S1E6 - Need for speed: accelerating crop breeding

July 24, 2026

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InterGrain joins national Australia Faba Bean Breeding Program

Bayer to make changes to Hawai‘i operations, consolidating some of the company's farm activities on O‘ahu and Maui over time (Aloha State Daily)

Chinese scientists achieve major hybrid rice breakthrough with near-100% cloning efficiency (Global Times)

Plant scientist explains the impact of the EU’s new gene-editing rules

Bayer expands research in Italy - Horticultural programs are underway in the new hi-tech greenhouses inaugurated in the province of Latina (EFA News)

Bayer: il cuore dell'innovazione è nell'Agro Pontino (EFA News)

July 23, 2026

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University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre announces new lentil and faba bean breeding agreements

Clemson University scientists identify reduced-allergen peanuts that could lead to safer foods and stronger crops

What China's latest plant variety rights grants mean for breeders in the Netherlands - Continued innovation remains the key to unlock long-term success

Nova tecnologia de sequenciamento genético amplia pesquisas em trigo

Zukunftsfitter Ackerbau in Österreichs Getreidekammer - Der Neubau der AGES-Versuchsstation Großnondorf stärkt die Forschung von klimafitten Sorten und resilientem Ackerbau

Mosaic Biosciences and Elicit Plant launch joint program to develop new canola solutions for North America

July 22, 2026

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Can editing the ‘dark genome’ make crops more heat tolerant?

Mexico's National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research (INIFAP) develops climate-resilient bean varieties (Mexico Business)

Cibus Inc’s precision-breeding platform and biofragrance scale-up support commercial inflection 

July 21, 2026

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Czech peas under the microscope: Researchers at Mendel University are fighting diseases that threaten food security

Researchers urge single approach to crop breeding as IRRI expands low emission rice work (Milling Middle East & Africa)

Global consortium leverages spatial omics for food security (Asian Scientist)

Confronting the phenomics scale gap in field crop breeding (Trends in Plant Science)

Phytoform partners with major seed breeders to bring AI-powered plant design to corn crops (AFN)

Canadian Seed Growers' Association, AGM presentation resources

July 20, 2026

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What happens when pangenetics meets AI-powered prediction? Next frontier of AI-driven crop design

What has population genomics told us about the dynamics of selection and plant adaptation? (Oxford University Press)

IPB University researchers successfully develop Indonesia’s first local Habanero chili varieties, here are their advantages

Triticale (×Triticosecale Wittm.) production and breeding progress in Poland (1992–2023) under increasing drought risk (Wiley Online Library)

Decoding plant immunity: proteomics as a biotechnological tool for crop improvement (PubMed)