Sustainability News

  1. AI-Empowered Breeding Strategy To Revitalize Orphan Crops For Global Food Security 12/9/2025

    With the global population growth and climate change posing escalating threats to crop production, the current food system is unlikely to be sufficient to meet future demand.

  2. BioLumic Expands Light-Activated Seed Trait Platform To South America 12/9/2025

    BioLumic, the only agricultural biotechnology company that programs heritable seed traits using light, today announced steps to expand its Corn xTraits Licensing Program into South America.

  3. NUS Scientists Create Microneedle System To Deliver Biofertiliser Directly Into Plants, Boosting Growth With Less Waste 12/9/2025

    Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed dissolving microneedle patches that deliver living “biofertiliser” straight into plant tissue.

  4. Rice Resists Change: Study Reveals Viral Tools Fall Short 12/9/2025

    Researchers from Rothamsted Research and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul tested two popular viral vectors - barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) and foxtail mosaic virus (FoMV) - to see if they could temporarily switch genes on or off in rice (Oryza sativa).

  5. Myosin XI-1: A Key Molecular Target For Salt-Tolerant Crops 12/8/2025

    Salt stress is a major factor that impairs plant growth and yield. In a breakthrough, researchers from Waseda University have revealed that Arabidopsis thaliana myosin XI-1—a member of the motor protein myosin XI—significantly regulates adaptation to salt stress via intracellular sodium ion (Na⁺) homeostasis.

  6. Partnerships Powering AI Advances In Agriculture 12/8/2025

    CGIAR’s global partner network has worked alongside rural communities for over five decades, accumulating unparalleled data, experience and knowledge to deliver technologies that can help tackle today’s agricultural challenges.

  7. A New Phytopathology Greenhouse For West & Central Africa 12/8/2025

    In Bambey, at the heart of Senegal’s groundnut basin, a phytopathology and crop improvement greenhouse, jointly managed by Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA) and CIMMYT, is ready to accelerate the development of improved crop varieties for millions across West and Central Africa.

  8. AvironiX Unveils AviSpray-10c, A Backpack-Sized Agricultural Spraying Drone For India's Precision Farming Sector 12/8/2025

    AvironiX Drones, a Chennai-based deep-tech drone company focused on precision farming and defence technologies, today announced the launch of its latest agricultural innovation, the AviSpray-10c, a compact, backpack-sized spraying drone 53% smaller than the current generation, designed to significantly reduce the cost, operational complexity, and manpower requirements of drone-based crop spraying in India.

  9. Bioleum Corporation Acquires Hexas Biomass Inc 12/8/2025

    Comstock Inc. (NYSE American: LODE, the “Company”) today announced that one of its strategic investees, Bioleum Corporation (“Bioleum”), acquired Hexas Biomass Inc. (“Hexas”), a global leader in the development and deployment of purpose grown energy crops and biomaterials, including all of its intellectual properties and certain liabilities, in exchange for a purchase price of approximately $6.5 million comprised of approximately $3.5 million paid with 146,637 shares of Bioleum common stock at $24 per share, $500,000 in five annual cash payments of $100,000 each, commencing at closing, and $2.5 million of convertible debt, redeemable with cash payments payable from 5% of Hexas’ aggregate revenues or convertible into Bioleum common stock, also at a conversion price of $24 per share.

  10. Maizex Seeds Invests In The Future Of Seed Corn Production In Canada 12/8/2025

    Maizex Seeds, the seed division of Sollio Agriculture, announces the groundbreaking of a major $8.8 million investment in a new seed corn processing and packaging plant at their Blenheim, Ontario, facility.