Danforth Center researchers turn to epigenome editing to protect cash crop cassava from blight
Researchers recently demonstrated that epigenome editing can reduce blight symptoms in cassava plants without impacting plant growth or yield.
Researchers recently demonstrated that epigenome editing can reduce blight symptoms in cassava plants without impacting plant growth or yield.
Speakers at this year’s Indoor Ag-Con offered the indoor farming industry insights, predictions and some major reality checks about the future.
Once focused on cotton, Texas Crop Science is now partnering with world-renowned plant genetics company GDM for high-yielding soybean varieties for farmers.
Source.ag’s AI-based system creates “extreme efficiencies” in greenhouse production and improve food security and transparency, says Astanor.
University professor and startup founder Kaiyu Guan discusses remote sensing, computational modeling and why scientific credibility is critical for agtech’s success.
Foodbytes has revamped its business from a pitch competition to an online hub fostering connections between startups, corporates and investors.
With a fintech platform and food prescription program, About Fresh is making food accesiblity a reality for more Americans.
Agrifoodtech startups working to build a more sustainable, reliable agrifood system are invited to apply to the five-month-long program
The California-based startup will build up a team to scale its nutrient delivery product beyond its current 1 million acres.
The FlyFeed founder describes his journey from working at SaaS startups to building his own insect protein company to combat global hunger.
War and supply chain issues make indoor wheat an attractive concept. Can the vertical farming industry manage to grow that crop at scale?
Redrawing the rules of the food system could support close to 50 billion people globally and upend the geopolitical side effects of the Green Revolution.
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
At this year’s AgTech NEXT event in St. Louis, Missouri, panelists discussed the different ways to deal with “a food system in crisis.”
As rural producers in North-West Europe look to add controlled environment agriculture to their farms, there’s a compelling case for more greenhouses.
War, climatic events, and supply chain strains are putting millions of tons of grain and roughly 1.4 billion people in vulnerable countries at risk.
The three-day event in St. Louis will explore how we can build a more secure food system — and what we must do to take action right now.
The tech-enabled parks are a joint project between India, Israel, the UAE, and the US.
The Lithuania-based startup is partnering with YesHealth Group to build and operate a network of farms across its home country and the wider Baltic region.
Norichukin Bank recently joined the first close of AgFunder’s $100m Fund IV as a limited partner to advance Japan’s agriculture, fisheries, and forestry industries.
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