October 27, 2026

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From rice fields to accelerating vegetable breeding - By combining artificial intelligence, advanced genetics and computer simulations, North Carolina State University doctoral student Kashish Grover is giving plant breeders back their most precious commodity: time

Argentina - Mejoramiento genético de alfalfa: el INTA presentó innovaciones clave para sistemas productivos

Western Australia backs new project to speed up wheat and barley breeding (Global Agriculture)

From natural selection to de novo design: Generative AI ushers in "Breeding 5.0" for crops

From trials of varying plot sizes to extensive data analysis, DL Canada and Brett Young’s breeding process takes nearly a decade - How Brett Young seed goes from thousands of crosses to two seed variety releases (The Western Producer)

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to host 11th Independent Plant Breeders Conference from November 16 to 18, 2026 (GardenCenter)

October 26, 2026

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Mapping the future of UK agricultural research - Research on improved crop varieties at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University has been highlighted in a major new report

Mapping the future of UK agricultural research

Fleuroselect’s Breeders & Distributors Conference scheduled for December 2 & 3 in Oldenburg and the Ammerland, Germany (Perishable News)

October 23, 2026

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African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) initiative launches programme to support 47 women plant breeders across Africa (KBC)

Time to tap into agriculture’s hidden genetic potential

October 22, 2026

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Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) and ICARDA Sign Regional Breeding Modernization Project (BredMod 2.0)

Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) and Canadian Barley Research Coalition (CBRC) join forces to transform the Canadian wheat and barley breeding system

October 21, 2026

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Lidea - 20 years of continuous innovation with tropical dent genetics

October 20, 2026

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Leibniz Institute of Horticultural Sciences (IGZ) and the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) agree to closer cooperation in vegetable research

Bayer breaks ground on $50M canola innovation centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba (The Western Producer)

African indigenous crops take global stage as plant scientist Pamela Afokpe, R&D Operations Manager at East-West Seed West Africa, wins prestigious 2026 Borlaug Field Award

October 16, 2026

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Rice breeding research targets stemborer amidst El Niño

Africa at the forefront as the Millets And Other Ancient Grains International Research Initiative (MAHARISHI) program opens funded millet research training in India

Computomics, podcast S8E1: Can AI make plant breeding more accessible? with Felix Sattler, Bioinformatics Analyst

Seed industry thrives in Changfeng County of Hefei, east China's Anhui Province (People's Daily)

Researchers from four countries train in breeding wheat for disease resistance at CIMMYT

Turning up the heat on chickpea yield

October 15, 2026

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Origin Agritech launches stress-tolerant corn breeding for southwest China markets, with supports from Guizhou state entities

How AI is speeding up the journey from trial data to new varieties

New technique holds promise for improved gene editing

A University of Queensland study has outlined a practical pathway for accelerating the development of heat adapted chickpeas using data from new ‘omic’ technologies

October 14, 2026

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Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA) rally Africa’s seed industry in Nigeria to accelerate crop innovation and strengthen food security (PanAfrican Visions)

New AFBI and DLF partnership looking to grass varieties of the future (Farming Life)

Rust-proofing Australian barley: a fight against evolution