The GRSV website collates and publishes a monthly newsletter, GRSV AgriTech News, which highlights issues of current importance in agriculture and allied sciences, with a potential for long-term impact.
Research Results 1. How plants activate their immune system against pathogens in rain While rain is essential for plants to grow, it also has bacteria and other pathogens which can harm the plants. A recent study by a team led
Research Results 1. Researchers boost rice yield by overcoming trait trade-off between panicle number and size Crop breeding is largely constrained by trade-offs among different agronomic traits. Since many of these trade-offs are caused by gene pleiotropy, reducing gene pleiotropy
Research Results 1. Understanding rust resistance in bread wheat One-fifth of the global wheat crop is lost to insect pests and diseases each year—enough grain to make about 290 billion loaves of bread. Researchers at the Center for Desert Agriculture,
Research Results 1. Rice production depends on TAB1 gene, researchers find Plant development depends on the activity of pluripotent stem cells in meristems, such as the shoot apical meristem and the flower meristem. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the
Research Results 1. Genetic discovery can help improve breeding for disease resistance in wheat The fungus Parastagonospora nodorum uses proteinaceous necrotrophic effectors (NEs) to induce tissue necrosis on wheat leaves during infection, leading to the symptoms of Septoria nodorum blotch
December Special 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress The 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress (IAC) was convened during 15-18 November 2021 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, CGIAR, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, and organized in
November Special Climate Change: COP 26 At the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the UK in partnership with Italy, during October-November 2021, at Glasgow, UK, the participating countries vowed to work with partners to take further action
October Special Biodiversity commitment builds hope for ‘living in harmony with nature’ During October 2021, there have been numerous write-ups on issues related to global, regional and country-wise status and the future of biodiversity conservation. The UN Biodiversity Conference (15th
Research Results 1. CSIRO ‘gene sandwich’ to enhance wheat rust resistance Wheat stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici, has been a major pest of wheat the world over and, owing to the formation of multiple races of the
Research Results 1. Researchers map late blight strains in potato on Java, Indonesia Potato late blight disease is credited as the cause of the great Irish potato famine of 1845. Farmers ever since have hoped for effective and durable solutions
