Celebration is an apt title for the event,” said Noel Magor, head of the Impact Acceleration Unit and Training at the International Rice research Institute (IRRI), as he glanced at the text written across the tarpaulin that reads CSISA Tamil Nadu Hub Celebration Workshop. “The CSISA project in Tamil Nadu has accomplished a lot in a short time. Our partners’ contribution has been the key significant aspect of thie success of this work in Tamil Nadu.”

Pineapple has been cultivated for more than 6,000 years, thriving in water-starved environments. To understand how pineapples grow to be juicy under such conditions, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took a closer look at the plant's genes and genetic pathways.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on October 21, 2015, a loan of US$90 million for the Republic of Angola to finance a Science and Technology Development project to contribute to the diversification of the economy through research and development in agro-industry, biotechnology and health, energy, information and communication technologies, nanotechnology and mechatronics.

When we hear Dow at CIAT, most of us think about the collaboration of CIAT’s forages team with Dow AgroSciences who work together on ensuring farmers to have the high-quality forages they need to fatten their livestock and boost their incomes.

FAO 3 November 2015, Rome - A new global round of country-driven agricultural censuses is set to begin in 2016, a large-scale, data collection process that will gather information and statistics on the world's agricultural sector.

ISAAA releases a new infographic titled Do you know where biotech crops are grown? The infographic shows the commercialized biotech crops grown in the 28 planting countries in 2014 based on ISAAA Brief 49 Global Status of Commercialized Biotech /GM Crops: 2014.

The  National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines celebrated its 25^th founding anniversary, with the theme "Celebrating 25 years of Biosafety in the Philippines Looking Back…Moving Forward" at the Chardonnay by Astoria in Pasig City, Philippines on October 27, 2015. The event was attended by more than 120 representatives of the NCBP partner government departments, scientists, academe, research agencies and institutions, media and private industry.

Researchers from North Carolina State University (NCSU) show how plants handle at the molecular level, the release of ethylene, an important gaseous stress hormone that regulates plant growth and stimulates fruit ripening process. Plant geneticists Anna Stepanova and Jose Alonso show that ethylene triggers a process that begins, but doesn't complete gene expression, one of the cell's most basic functions.

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has deregulated the biotech corn event MON 87411 (glyphosate tolerant and rootworm resistant). The decision is based on the assessment that corn is not harmful to agricultural crops, environment, or other crops. Importation of MON 87411 corn seeds, other propagative material, and grain for consumption will still be subject to APHIS foreign quarantine regulations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA FAS) released the Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report on the agri-biotech status of Nigeria. According to the report, Nigeria passed the biosafety bill into law and established the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) in April this year