Genetically modified sugarcane that produces more sucrose has been developed by scientists from Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil.

Son La province. FAO is helping Viet Nam achieve higher food safety and quality standards, with an innovative vegetable sector project benefiting consumers and farmers. The outcomes and impacts of this project, titled “Strengthening Vietnamese SPS Capacities for Trade: Improving safety and quality of fresh vegetables through the value-chain approach (Phase II)”

The Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) invites comments from the public to assess license application DIR 153 from The University of Queensland for a field trial (limited and controlled release) of sorghum genetically modified for grain quality traits.

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and University of California Davis studying the sociability of clovers have found that a single gene coding for UDP-glucose flavonoid 3-O-glucosyltransferase plays a key role in plant diversity and competition.

Parboiling, a task largely done by women in parts of Africa involves partially boiling rice in the husk and drying it well before it is milled. The photo is the first runner-up in A rice farmer’s life, a competition celebrating the 50th year of IR8. The “miracle rice” was developed by IRRI scientists in the early 1960s is believed to have saved many countries in Asia from famine.

The young scientist contest is a traditional meeting by the IAS annually to provide the needs how to strengthen our scientific manpower. The English presentation is required to meet the demand of the turning point of further Vietnam agriculture. Recently, the southern agriculture has emerged as one of the leading exported agro-food commodities.

In a three-year field study conducted in the United States, researchers proved that engineered soybeans yield more than conventional soybeans in the year 2050, when population is predicted to be at 9.7 billion and carbon dioxide levels to hit 600 parts per million—a 50% increase over today's levels.

Brazil maintained its second ranking in the top producers of GM crops in 2016, following the US, according to ISAAA Brief 52 Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2016 released last week. In 2016, Brazilian farmers planted biotech soybean, maize, and cotton on 49.1 million hectares of land, which is 27% of the 185.1 million hectares of GM crops planted globally. Brazil also recorded the highest percentage increase in adoption from 2015 with 11%, making the country the engine of growth of GM crops worldwide.

Researchers from the University of Arizona (UA) have discovered an unexpected strategy that can delay, and even reverse, the evolution of resistance by pests to genetically engineered crops. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that hybridizing genetically engineered cotton with conventional cotton reduced resistance in the pink bollworm, a voracious global pest.

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) launched its 2016 report titled Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2016. Two launch events were held on May 4 and 5, 2017 in Beijing, China. The media conference held on May 4, 2017 at China Wold Hotel was attended by some 40 journalists from Chinese and international news agencies. ISAAA Chair, Dr. Paul Teng, presented the highlights of the report.