News Beep1d ago

Trump Struck Iran. Now Farmers Are Paying the Price.

“When I saw the new fertilizer price, I’m like, holy crap. Talk about a kick to the gut.”…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Agriculture #breakingnews #commodity #Economy #Fertilizer #Iowa #Iran #Maize #vis-video
https://www.newsbeep.com/466475/

JIPB3d ago

✂️This comprehensive validation of CasY7 across 942 #transgenic #plants confirmed robust editing in #maize, #rice, and #wheat, establishing CasY7 as a high-efficiency addition to the #CRISPR toolkit.

🧬https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70181
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#PlantSci #CropSci #botany

JIPBMar 27
🌽Zhu et al. uncover a key regulatory pathway controlling #maize root #development and highlight a valuable target #gene for improving root systems and enhancing drought tolerance in crop breeding programs.
🍿https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70220
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#PlantScience #JIPB #botany
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 18
Did #seabird poop fuel rise of #Chincha in #Peru?
“#Guano dramatically boosted the production of #maize (#corn), and this agricultural surplus crucially helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy, driving their trade, wealth, population growth and regional influence, and shaped their strategic alliance with the #Inca Empire. In ancient Andean cultures, fertiliser was power.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/did-seabird-poop-fuel-rise-of-chincha-in-peru/
in silico PlantsMar 18
📢 Scientific researcher (PhD position) Integrating genetics into crop models at Georg-August-University of Göttingen
Application deadline: 3/16/2026
https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/Index/76359
#maize #genetics #drought #PlantSciJobs
Online-Bewerbung - OBMplus

Gay CurmudgeonMar 18
"IS CORN GRASS?" is one of our favorite Rifftrax shorts, but corn has been one of my ideal plants since childhood. Juniata County Corn Field, 1973. #corn #cornplant #cornplants #cornstalk #cornstalks #cornshalk #cornshalks #autumn #fall #summer #endofsummer #highasanelephantseye #growingcorn #maize #indiancorn #farm #farmer #farming #farmette #familyfarm #familyfarms #rifftrax #riffing #riffers #mikenelson #kevinmurphy #billcorbett #entertaining #entertainers #comedian #comedians
JIPBMar 16

🌽"The future is the past." Sounds corny? You bet!

⌛️Understanding our #crop ancestors will help #PlantScience create the #food of the future.

🍿In this #review, Yuan et al. explore the hybrid origin and #phenotype #evolution of modern #maize!

🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70122
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#botany

in silico PlantsFeb 27
🌽 🌾 Disentangling the contribution of trait plasticity to improve the productivity of a #maize – #soybean intercrop system for the Midwest, USA
by Elena Pelech, Jochem Evers, Carl Bernacchi
https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diag003 #PlantScience #model
in silico PlantsFeb 24
Successful Predictive Modeling of #Pollen Fitness Phenotypes Is Enabled by Measures of Expression Specificity
by Sebastian A.F. Mueller, Zuzana Vejlupkova, Molly Megraw, John E. Fowler
https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.05.692487 via BioRxiv #PlantScience #maize
in silico PlantsFeb 24
🌾 Identifying and quantifying the contribution of #maize plant traits to nitrogen uptake and use through plant #modelling
by Jie Lu, Tjeerd Jan Stomph, Guohua Mi, Lixing Yuan, Jochem Evers
https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diae018 #PlantScience