Research Unlocks Rice Gene Diversity for Food Security |
 A new study opens the possibility of accelerating rice breeding to help achieve food security for some of the world's most vulnerable rice farmers. A collaboration among the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI-Shenzhen, and 13 other partner institutions, the research will enable scientists and breeders to discover new gene variants and characterize known genes for important traits, such as disease resistance and tolerance to floods, drought, and salty water. Additionally, molecular breeders could use the genetic markers to select rice plants that are more likely to carry a desired trait before they are planted in the field.
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FDA Approves Application for AquaBounty Salmon Facility in Indiana, USA |
 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Animal Drug Application (NADA) submitted by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. that requests FDA approval to raise AquAdvantage Salmon – a product under an application previously approved in 2015 – at a land-based contained facility near Albany, Indiana.
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Early Leaf Senecence and Salt Stress Response Gene Found in Rice |
 Early leaf senescence can cause negative effects on rice yield and its regulation is relatively unknown. The team of Dong-Dong Zeng from Zhejiang University in China isolated and studied the bilateral blade senescence 1 (bbs1) rice (Oryza sativa), an early leaf senescence mutant with a premature senescence phenotype that occurs at the leaf margins, in hopes of understanding the mechanism of early leaf senescence.
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GM APPROVAL UPDATES |
- The Philippines approved the canola event LBFLFK for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved the cotton event GFM cry1A for commercial cultivation.
- Brazil approved the wheat event HB4 for commercial cultivation.
- The Philippines approved the soybean event GMB 151 for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved the eggplant event EE-1 for cultivation
- The USA approved the canola event MON94100 for food and feed.
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Early results from the field trials of Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) show that the 
