If all goes according to plan, by 2027 soybean farmers throughout Canada will have new soybean varieties with tolerance to five key herbicides.
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New Bayer genetics to open up soybean herbicide tolerance
Vyconic trait set offers tolerance to five herbicides and will be integrated with the company’s soybean varieties in coming years
Cost of access to plant gene banks may increase
Proposed changes to international plant gene sharing treaty could could bring additional costs to researchers, farmers
Glacier FarmMedia – Plant breeders around the globe can freely access plant gene banks for development of new crop varieties under the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Proposed changes at the international level could make access — and future crop research — more costly. Who would pay that cost is not […] Read more
DSI tax threatens public ag research
Digital sequence information, which was discussed at last year’s COP 15 convention on biological diversity, has significant implications for agriculture. DSI is the available information that exists online about a plant specie’s genetics once it has been sequenced. Discussions have been ongoing about access to DSI and the benefits that may occur, such as a […] Read more
