b'INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering the people, industry, business and product news you need to know.Submissions are welcome. Email us at news@issuesink.com.Kansas State University is a partner on an international team that includes U.S. universities and national institutes in a new global crop improvement research program to advance plant breeding tools, technologies and methods aimed at delivering crops that can increase yields, enhance nutrition and have greater resistance to pests and diseases. The work will be through the new Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement.Students at UC Riverside have created a program to transition todays undergraduates into professional scientists solving tomorrows farming challenges. The program, called Plants-3D, will train students to discover, design and deploy biology and engineering solutions to the projected problem of massive-scale food insecurity due to climate change.FMC has joined the Iowa Soybean Research Center at Iowa State University as an industry partner. In this role, FMC will have a representative on the ISRCs industry advisory council, which provides guidance on research priorities for the center.The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of a new Seeds for Sprouting Export Certification Program, which provides European markets access to U.S. seeds used to produce sprouts for the first time since 2012. The program is an audit service administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service to help U.S. producers and exporters demonstrate and document compliance with European Rothamsted Research is to leadUnion regulations covering seeds used to produce a consortium awarded a totalsprouts. It is open to any U.S. seed distributor seeking to of 600K to develop new riceexport seeds for sprouting to the EU.varieties that can be grown with lessArcadia Biosciences, Inc. announced the U.S. Patent water than conventional puddledand Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent for reduced gluten grains. This unique attribute transplanted rice. Also involving thewas developed through Arcadias in-house breeding International Rice Research Instituteplatform, which brings novel food innovations to consumers. The patent is the 17th in Arcadias (IRRI), based in the Philippines,GoodWheat portfolio of non-genetically modified (non-and Punjab Agricultural University,GM) wheat varieties, which includes high-fiber resistant India, the UKRI-funded project willstarch, extended shelf life and now reduced gluten.use cutting edge plant breedingThe Western Illinois University School of Agriculture technologies, field trials and anannounced that Agriculture Professor Win Phippen is the recipient of a $10 million federal grant to investigate image-based system for measuringthe use of the alternative crop, Pennycress, as a new traits to accelerate the developmentcash cover crop in the Midwest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture of new rice plants. grant will allow Phippen to further refine Pennycress as a 134/ SEEDWORLD.COMDECEMBER 2019'