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114 SEEDWORLD.COM DECEMBER 2015 INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering the people industry business and product news you need to know. Submissions are welcome. Email us at newsissuesink.com. After analyzying research a University of California Riverside entomologist concludes managed bees are spreading disease to wild bees. Even in cases when the managed bees do not have a disease they still stress local wild bees making them more susceptible to disease says Peter Graysock a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Entomology and lead author of a paper published in the International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife. Japanese researchers have induced genes involved in oil synthesis to work for longer periods of time allowing them to accumulate more oil. The researchers say its clear that the length of the oil synthesis phase in seed formation is one of the primary factors that determine final oil content. By suppressing protein synthesis while extending oil synthesis the oil production increased even more. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using nanoparticles to boost the nutrient content and growth of tomato plants. They found that by using zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles the tomato plants better absorbed light and minerals and the fruit had higher antioxidant content. With a very fine spray the team used novel aerosolization techniques to deposit the nanoparticles on plants leaves for maxi- mum uptake. Researchers at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and Michigan State University receive a four-year 3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will enable scientists to identify and study small signaling peptides in a model legume species Medicago truncatula as well as alfalfa. The University of Illinois and Dow AgroSciences announce the grand opening of a facility located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This facility brings together statistics mathematics computer science and engi- neering to catalyze innovation through analytics. Projects at the facility focus on exploration and implementation of analytics technologies applied to agricultural challenges. The University of Nebraska Lincoln will lead a 13.5 million multi-institutional research effort to improve sorghum for biofuel. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy this five- year grant takes a comprehensive approach to understand how plants and microbes interact and to learn which sorghum germplasm grows best with less water and nitrogen. Research teams from the University of Valencia and Franois Rabelais University in Tours France discover that genes originating from parasitic wasps are present in the genomes of many butterflies.These genes were acquired through a wasp- associated virus that integrates into DNA. Wasp genes have now been domesticated and likely play a role in protecting but- terflies against other pathogenic viruses. These resultsreveal that butterflies constitute naturally-produced GMOs during the course of evolution. University of Arizonascientists along with more than 20 others from different disciplines have figured out how to grow crops including sweet potatoes and strawberries that could survive on Mars and the moon. Their research was conducted inside a big aluminum-framed plastic-covered cylinder. The result is nearly 100 percent harvestable quality produce. The project was funded by NASAs Ralph Steckler Space Grant Colonization Research and Technology Development Opportunity. An Iowa State University agronomist helpsuncover the genetic mechanisms in sorghum plants that allow hybrids to perform better than parent varieties a process known as heterosis. The new study fills in some of the gaps that have nagged scientists for years and could lead to more precision in plant breeding says Jianming Yu an associate professor ofagronomyand the Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding. Cornell University researchers used mathematical models to illuminate the advantages and disadvantages of a new genome editing mechanism called a gene drive. The mechanism has been long discussed but only recently demonstrated in fruit flies in labs at the University of California San Diego using