#plantbreeding — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plantbreeding, aggregated by home.social.
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"Could Research Cuts Push Canada’s Young Plant Breeders Elsewhere?"
https://www.seedworld.com/canada/2026/09/17/future-plant-breeding-canada-ben-erickson/ #Canada #PlantBreeding #PlantScience #ClimateChange #Neoliberalism
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I just finished a week (3 hr/day) of online webinars on an EU project on participatory fruit breeding for organic growers. It's been a loooooong time since I've been able to be at a plant science meeting that excited me as much. Most of the presentations kept me very engaged in the subject matter. And they were on very timely subjects, not just what's "timely" for people jockeying for more publications in "high impact journals" (although some presenters had that too). #PlantBreeding 🎉
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Found two pretty potatoes with a decent size from harvest tubers grown from true potato seed (TPS) today. Follow me having fun with potatoes here: https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/diversifying-potatoes-in-denmark/4947/12
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Decades of progress: Breeding modified soybean root systems
"Soybean yields have increased over the last century, but little was known about how root systems changed during this period. We evaluated 24 soybean cultivars released between 1930 and 2005 in field experiments at two locations over 2 years, measuring root architecture, nodulation, and seed yield."
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Experimental farmer Shane Simonsen: Working on locally adapted #plants & #crops of the future while we still have a safety net. 🌱🌻
#plantbreeding #seeds #seedsaving #agriculture #local #permaculture #ecology #foodsecurity #food #nutrition
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New Zealand apples on the world stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoXXO0M_BA #PlantBreeding #FruitToot #NewZealand
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… resource-constrained & developing countries can rely on the established international scientific expertise when adopting GM crops to help them sustain agricultural productivity under adverse climate, environmental & social conditions.
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The theme of the UC Davis Plant Breeding Retreat (an event that was made inaccessible to me many of the years I was there, incidentally) is Intellectual Property.
While being able to protect one's work (until the plant patent runs out) is important in the kind of world we're living in at the moment, the fact that this is the theme of a gathering of students, faculty and guests in plant breeding rather than any number of urgent topics right now disturbs me. #PlantBreeding #UCAccessNow
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The EU has finally endorsed #geneediting to introduce novel traits in plants—without treating them like GMOs in terms of #regulation if the plants could have arisen thru conventional #plantbreeding. This means the EU has reopened to innovative agricultural #biotech companies: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Pasta of the future: Italy tests climate-resistant wheat • FRANCE 24 English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQsNC6jxkOY #Italy #PlantBreeding #ClimateChange
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#Rice is eaten by half the world’s population, but it is low in #zinc, #iron & protein. #PlantBreeding for higher mineral concentrations, #fertilization with zinc & iron, and #parboiling can help increase nutrient levels to attain desired #health impacts: doi.org/10.1038/s442... #biofortification
Integrating genetic and agrono... -
1/🧵I'm a bit over the endless review articles and their fancy diagrams telling us that combining #genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, environmental data and AI will revolutionise plant breeding.
No shit Sherlock.
Of course integrating all those data streams would generate valuable insights. That was never the challenging part. The real limitation is economics 💸 Many breeding programs already struggle to justify the cost of genomics alone.
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Postdoctoral Position in Plant Breeding and Artificial Intelligence
Instituto Agronômico (IAC)See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/instituto-agronomico-iac-27778-postdoctoral-position-in-plant-breeding-and-artificial-intelligence/
#AIPlantbreeding #phenomics #plantbreeding #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/instituto-agronomico-iac-27778-postdoctoral-position-in-plant-breeding-and-artificial-intelligence/?fsp_sid=14071 -
#EFSA: Stacked GM soybean is as safe as its non-GM comparator and the tested non-GM reference varieties with respect to potential effects on human & animal health and the environment: doi.org/10.2903/j.ef... #GMO #Soybeans #Biotechnology #PlantBreeding #FoodSafety #Health #Biosafety #Environment
Assessment of genetically modi... -
Over 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient malnutrition globally. #Biofortification of staple crops by plant breeding can be a cost-effective approach to address iron, zinc & vitamin A deficiency: doi.org/10.1016/j.tj... #Malnutrition #Nutrition #Health #PlantBreeding #CostEffectiveness #DALYs
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Introducing Gibasis 'Europa'! The second of my four new Gibasis cultivars this year.
'Europa' has unusually-coloured leaves, which range from dark olive green to burgundy. In bright light they develop streaks of purple along the centre and edges of the leaves. The last picture shows the colour of a typical stem of Europa (centre) compared to 'Tahitian Bridal Veil' (left) and 'Purple Bridal Veil' (right).
'Europa', along with 'Io' and the other two coming up, will be available to buy for UK delivery soon!
More pics and details on the cultivar page: https://tradescantia.uk/cultivar/gib-europa/
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Biofortified crops have substantial potential for scaling among smallholders in West Africa—given strengthened seed systems, nutrition-sensitive extension services, awareness campaigns & improved market development: doi.org/10.22004/ag.... #Biofortification #PlantBreeding #Nutrition #Information
Smallholder households' Adopti... -
New cultivar registration: Gibasis 'Io'!
I bred this myself last year. Its parents are G. pellucida 'Purple Bridal Veil', and G. 'Jose Puig'. I actually got a whole lot of seedlings from this pairing, with a huge amount of interesting variations. I'm registering four of them altogether, so keep an eye out for the other announcements soon! I'll also be selling all of them (for UK delivery only) this summer.
'Io' has medium green leaves which are quite similar to the common 'Tahitian Bridal Veil' at a glance. Except the edges of the leaves are distinctly wavy or crinkly, and the surfaces are less glossy. The last picture shows a comparison, with 'Io' on the left.
Details on the website: https://tradescantia.uk/cultivar/gib-io
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@Tarnport/116930749231721096
The first scientifically created (not an accidental) hybrid was made of two Dianthus species - a Sweet William and a carnation.
It was called "Fairchild's Mule".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fairchild_(gardener) #PlantBreeding #Botany
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New cultivar registration: Tradescantia 'Urals'.
This unusual plant is a new interspecific hybrid, between T. pallida and either T. hirta or (T. brevifolia × hirta). It was bred by Alex Rassadnikov in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
More details on the cultivar page: https://tradescantia.uk/cultivar/tra-urals/
#plants #tradescantia #plantbreeding #horticulture #gardening
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Over 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Higher nutrient densities in crops are needed. #GeneEditing and metabolic engineering could be used to achieve #Biofortification targets to tackle vitamin & mineral deficiencies: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #CRISPR #PlantBreeding #Nutrition
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Haskap are fruits of a plant in the honeysuckle family - Lonicera caerulea.
There are breeding programs in Russia, Japan, Canada, and select northern states in the US.
They're self-incompatible, so if you want to try them in your garden (if you live someplace cold), you'll need a compatible pollinizer variety.
https://research-groups.usask.ca/fruit/Fruit%20crops/haskap.php #PlantBreeding #Canada #FruitToot
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Haskap berries are the new superfruit
Seems like this piece is more an ad for this farm that really informative about haskap. They should have talked to breeders at U of Saskatchewan.
Be careful about "superfood" claims. Basically, even with healthy foods, they have different nutritional profiles and they differ by cultivar & how/where they're grown in their nutritional profiles, as well as how they're prepared and served.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fq0UA1l3is #PlantBreeding #Canada #FruitToot
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Weather Whiplash Decimates Pennsylvania Fruit Crop
This is one of the challenges plant breeders and farmers face - for temperate tree fruit crops that go dormant for winter and emerge "when the coast is clear", what happens when the coast is not clear in Spring?
It's not unprecedented to have a crop emerge and get devastated by late frosts. What's new is how often it's happening and how dramatically...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTtWZnWgTME #FruitToot #PlantBreeding #ClimateChange
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BOKU University seeks Professor of Crop Breeding & Genomics
"• Classical crop breeding approaches related to improving the resilience and resistance to abiotic/biotic stresses as well as productivity/quality traits of crops.
• High-throughput or novel phenotyping and data-driven breeding technologies.
• Quantitative genetics, genomics and predictive breeding.
• Novel genomic and/or biotechnological tools for crop genetic improvement."https://boku.ac.at/en/agri/newsitem/92481 #PlantBreeding #GetFediHired
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When #nutrition is embedded directly into crop genomes (via advances in genomics‐assisted #plantbreeding and precision #biotechnology), improvements in agricultural productivity can be translated more reliably into improvements in human health: doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #biofortification
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Do you plan a research career, e.g., at the intersection of #plantgenetics, #plantbreeding, #biodiversity or #agriculture?
Then check out the NextGen Scientists Symposium at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.
Application deadline: 2 August 2026
https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/hohenheim-nextgen-scientists-symposium
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#EU: Using the authorization process for GMOs also for new genomic techniques presents a high #investment barrier, meaning it is unlikely that companies develop new plants for cultivation in the EU—which hurts the competitiveness of its agriculture: doi.org/10.1093/erae... #PlantBreeding #Regulation
Comparing the effects of regul...