26 May 2021. WEBINAR: FFA2021 New Genomic Techniques – sustainable tool to face climate change? Recording forthcoming Session 1: Are NGTs one of the tools for
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WEBINAR: Biotechnology, biofortification and healthy diets: food systems’ interventions for enhanced nutrition.
20 May 2021. Biotechnology, biofortification and healthy diets: food systems’ interventions for enhanced nutrition. How biotechnology is essential towards crop biofortification and the socio-economic determinants
New genotyping services launched for global crop breeders
15 April 2021. CGIAR Excellence in Breeding has launched new low-cost, high throughput genotyping services, positioning breeding programs in the developing world to take a
Genetic make-up of destructive crop pest unravelled
9 April 2021. Researchers have decoded the genetic make-up of whitefly species that spread plant diseases and damage crops, raising hopes for tackling the devastating pest.
Genome editing: EC’s Ethics Group calls for wide-ranging societal debate and global governance
EGE (2021) Ethics of Genome Editing. European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. March 112 pp. 19
WEBINAR: Gene Editing in Agriculture and Food: Social Concerns, Public Engagement and Governance
21-22 October 2020. Gene Editing in Agriculture and Food: Social Concerns, Public Engagement and Governance Purpose: Understanding public concerns, values, and trust issues regarding gene editing
One CGIAR Global Webinar Series – “Applications of Genome Editing in Agriculture
One CGIAR Global webinar series on Genome Editing in Agriculture: Innovations for Sustainable Production and Food Systems The Crops to End Hunger initiative seeks to
UK Royal Society Africa Prize for use of plant nutrients to kill parasites in Kenya
10 August 2020. “The Royal Society Africa Prize 2020 is awarded to Dr Steven Runo for elucidating pathways for long distance RNA trafficking between parasitic
African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC): progress
The AOCC’s goal is to sequence, assemble and annotate the genomes of 101 traditional African food crops that rural Africans know and understand, to allow
Workshop on Bioinformatics and Wheat Genomics II
4-8 February 2019. Worcester, South Africa. Workshop on Bioinformatics and Wheat Genomics II The UK Science and Innovation Network (South Africa) hosted a workshop and built