AgTech & Innovation

New greenhouse research finds that tomato sap readings can shift with leaf position, tissue age, plant part and growth stage, making strict sampling consistency essential.

A University of Arkansas system for furrow irrigated rice used 27 percent less irrigation water and produced 15.3 more bushels an acre in a three year comparison. It is now commercially available.

A pulsed metal mesh killed tested grass like seedlings and held living broadleaf weeds below the barrier, but cost and crop scale use remain unproven.

French field observations found about 30 percent less aphid damage beside faba bean strips, but pesticide and yield effects remain unproven.

Two studies published this week deliver a cloned resistance gene, wheat introgression lines and breeding markers from wild relatives—but field durability still needs testing.

A peer-reviewed pilot delivered vaccine material underwater to 1–2 gram trout, but it did not test disease protection, farm-scale throughput or commercial cost.

Two seasons of field sensing show wheat varieties differ in how much water they use, when they use it and how deeply they draw it—opening a more precise route to match genetics and planting density with drought risk.

A new prime-editing system raised efficiency by up to 38.2-fold in tomato cells and improved editing across soybean and oilseed rape, but field-ready plants remain unproven.