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1. Sollum Technologies Partners With Optimal To Advance AI Greenhouse Control 6/10/2025

   Sollum Technologies is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Optimal, a leader in AI greenhouse control. This collaboration integrates Sollum's 100% dynamic LED lighting with Optimal's AI climate and irrigation control platform, enabling growers to precisely execute their desired growing strategy under rapidly changing weather conditions.

2. Scientists Reveal Gene Pairs Conferring Resistance To Wheat Diseases 6/10/2025

   A research team led by Prof. LIU Zhiyong at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified two novel genetic mechanisms for disease resistance in wheat, offering promising strategies to enhance resilience against powdery mildew and stripe rust.

3. Zoomlion Advances Intelligent Agricultural Machinery And Upgrades Service Support To Safeguard Summer Grain Harvest 6/9/2025

   Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK) is spearheading all-out efforts to safeguard the summer harvest as China's "Three Summer" jobs – summer harvesting, planting, and field management – are now in full swing.

4. Ecorobotix Unveils Lettuce Thinning Algorithm, Delivering Precision And Labor Savings For Lettuce Growers 6/5/2025

   Ecorobotix, an AI company specializing in precision agriculture, announces the launch of its new Lettuce Thinning algorithm, expanding the capabilities of its ARA Ultra High Precision (UHP) Sprayer to offer one of the most advanced automated thinning solutions on the market.

5. Omtse Ventures And APLFI Joins Apl.de.Ap To Support The Philippine Coconut Authority In Launching Historic 100 Million Tree Climate Initiative 6/5/2025

   Apl.de.Ap, alongside his affiliates Omtse Ventures, a Manila-based climate venture studio, and APLFI, a 501(c)(3), registered in California, have partnered with the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to launch the "100 Million Coconut Trees for the Climate" initiative.

6. Optimizing Potassium And Lighting For Efficient Hydroponic Lettuce And Arugula Production 6/5/2025

   Two new studies by the University of Georgia, Department of Horticulture provide critical insights into improving hydroponic lettuce and arugula production through optimized nutrient management and adaptive lighting control.

7. Fungal Resistance In Wheat: Preserving Biodiversity For Food Security 6/5/2025

   Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. Researchers at the University of Zurich have found traditional wheat varieties from Asia that harbor several resistance-conferring genes.

8. New Data Shows That Crops Like Wheat, Coffee, Beans And Cassava Could Lose Half Of The Best Land For Growing Them By 2100 6/5/2025

   The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has upgraded its innovative ABC-Map geospatial app with a new indicator which shows that several major crops including wheat, coffee, beans, cassava, and plantain could lose half their best or optimally suitable land by 2100.

9. A Threesome That Hatches Potato Parasites 6/4/2025

   Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery of this three-way relationship not only adds a new perspective to how plants interact with their environment, it also opens an avenue for developing countermeasures against the parasite.

10. Kubota Partners With Agtonomy To Advance Autonomous Operations On M5N Tractors For Specialty Crop Growers 6/3/2025

    Kubota North America today announced a strategic collaboration with Agtonomy, a leader in agricultural autonomy software, to commercialize autonomous operations on Kubota diesel tractors for spraying and mowing.