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. Researchers engineer bulkier wheat grains, boosting yields In most cereal crops, including wheat, grain weight/ grain size and number per unit area are the primary components of grain yield; those two yield components often show a negative
Research Results 1. Rice has many fathers but only two mothers Rice is the staple food of over half of the world’s population; it is the third-largest food crop, with more than 630 million tonnes produced annually. Researchers investigating the
Research Results 1. Researchers uncover a novel mechanism of weak apical dominance in rice Crops such as maize and sorghum produce only one culm to reduce competition among sinks and increase the productivity of the main culm, thus exhibiting enhanced
Research Results 1. A molecular brake for root growth Roots are essential for reaching water and nutrients to plants, for their anchorage to the ground, and also for their interacting and communicating with soil microorganisms. A shallower root with many
Research Results 1. Scientists reboot 50 years of plant advice to solve one of nature’s biggest challenges There is widespread agreement on the need to grow our food more sustainably without depleting our natural resources. Now scientists from the University
Research Results 1. A fungal pathogen of dicots adopts an endophytic lifestyle on cereal crops and protects them from major fungal diseases Cereal crops provide a major food source for human beings and animals. Many fungal pathogens that damage cereals
Research Results 1. Biological control agents can protect soybeans from sudden death syndrome Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) has become a leading yield-limiting disease in North America (and in many other soybean-growing countries), with recorded yield losses of nearly 1.7
Research Results 1. Cloned stem rust resistance genes offer hopes of future crop protection in wheat and barley In contrast to wheat where 82 stem rust resistance genes have been found, only 10 have been discovered in barley. Genes which
Research Results 1. New genes control plant height, could lead to flood-proof crops Plant height has been an important breeding objective in rice and wheat breeding. Plants with dwarf stems carry more grain without bending under their weight, and this
Research Results 1. Chronobiology: Researchers identify genes that tell plants when to flower How plants know when it is time to flower has been a mystery for a long time. Researchers at Martin Luther University (MLU), HalleWittenberg, have studied this
