Cereals

Building Grain and Flour Phenotyping Capacity at Kiboko (Kenya) and Thies (Senegal): A Journey in Progress

- Photo by CIMMYTThe establishment of grain and flour phenotyping platforms for groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet represents an important milestone, but it is only one step in a...

New evidence strengthens business case for climate smart mechanization in Zimbabwe’s sorghum sector

- through FARM P3, mechanization service providers received vital business and operations training. Photo by CIMMYT.As Zimbabwe continues to expand sorghum production to strengthen resilience to...

Turning research into investment for Zimbabwe’s sorghum farmers

- Research can identify technologies that improve productivity. Demonstration plots can show farmers what is possible. But lasting agricultural transformation depends on something more: investment,...

A conversation on strengthening Zimbabwe’s sorghum value chain

- Sorghum is gaining renewed attention in Zimbabwe’s semi-arid districts as a climate-resilient crop suited to changing rainfall patterns. While production and aggregation structures have...

Nanofertilizer made from açaí seeds stimulates the growth of corn and sorghum

- Technology adds value to agroindustrial waste and opens up new possibilities for its use in agriculture

After USAID, Who Will Fill the Agricultural Research Gap?

03/08/2026 - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) advanced an agricultural research portfolio that built resilience, boosted yields, and shaped public policies. When the Trump-Vance...

Fotosíntesis mejorada con CRISPR para capturar carbono

15/06/2026 - Crédito de la imagen: Agro-BioCientíficos del Instituto de Genómica Innovadora (IGI) han desarrollado una nueva forma de utilizar CRISPR para optimizar con alta...

Argentina reduce los derechos de exportación de cereales y oleaginosas

04/06/2026 - El Gobierno de Argentina ha oficializado una nueva reducción de los derechos de exportación aplicables a granos y subproductos mediante el Decreto N.º 423/2026. La medida forma...

La Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard gana el Premio Princesa de Asturias 2026

21/05/2026 - La Bóveda Global de Semillas de Svalbard, el mayor banco subterráneo de material genético vegetal del mundo, recibió ayer el Premio Princesa de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional 2026, según...

EE. UU. y China negocian ampliar las compras de maíz y soja ante la cumbre bilateral

14/05/2026 - China y Estados Unidos podrían alcanzar un acuerdo agrícola durante la cumbre bilateral de esta semana que ampliaría las compras de grano y carne por parte de Pekín. Según fuentes cercanas a la...

Argentina reglamenta las cuotas del acuerdo UE-Mercosur

06/05/2026 - La Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca del Ministerio de Economía de Argentina estableció, por medio de las Resoluciones N°50/2026 y N°53/2026, la...

Newly identified disease of corn and sorghum may be mistaken for iron deficiency

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Targeted Knockout of CYP79A1 Reduces Cyanogenic Potential in Grain Sorghum

- ABSTRACTUnderstanding how numerous heterotic quantitative trait loci (hQTL) shape heterosis and shifting from hQTL to candidate genes are central challenges. To address these challenges, we performed...

Assessment of relative soil moisture during fallow from Sentinel-1 and -2 to support crop management decisions for sorghum in Northeastern Australia

14/07/2026 - Informed decision-making ahead of planting is essential for minimizing sorghum production risk, particularly under increasing climate variability. Antecedent soil moisture status during the fallow...

Genetics of Flooding Tolerance in an F2 Miscanthus sacchariflorus ssp. lutarioriparius × M. sinensis Population

- An experiment to map flooding tolerance in Miscanthus ×giganteus was conducted. Two phenotyping protocols (A and B) and different pipelines to call SNPs were used. TASSEL?GBSv2 resulted in a genetic...

High?density mutation tracks are associated with proton?beam irradiation patterns in Sorghum bicolor

- AbstractInduced mutagenesis is a cornerstone of crop functional genomics, yet the extent to which distinct radiation sources reshape the spatial distribution of mutations remains difficult to...

Contrasting Carbon–Water–Energy Dynamics in Perennial and Annual Bioenergy Agroecosystems Using Eddy Covariance and Interpretable Machine Learning

- Environmental drivers regulate carbon, water, and energy fluxes differently in perennial and annual bioenergy agroecosystems. Long?term eddy covariance data and interpretable machine learning reveal...

Genomics for next?generation wheat breeding

- AbstractNucleotide?binding leucine?rich repeat (NLR) genes constitute one of the largest families of plant immune receptors and are central to crop disease resistance. Rice (Oryza sativa L.), maize...

Correction to “Genome?wide analysis of theAP2/ERF gene family in Rheum officinale Baill.: Evolution and expression profiling during plant development, abiotic stresses, and exogenous hormone responses”

Market-segmented target product profiles for realigning sorghum breeding, seed systems, and value chains in Eastern Sudan

- IntroductionSudan is a global center of sorghum origin and diversification, hosting extensive genetic diversity and strong culinary traditions. However, protracted conflict, climatic instability, and...

Pan?NLRome analysis uncovers genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics among rice, maize and sorghum

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