b'INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering the people, industry, business and product news you need to know.Submissions are welcome. Email us at news@issuesink.com.stem rust fungus was created when different rust strains simply fused to create a new hybrid strain. Environmentally friendlier palm oil production could be achieved with less fertilizer and no herbicide, while maintaining profits. These are the encouraging preliminary results of the first two years of a large-scale oil palm management experiment by an international team of researchers led by the University of Gttingen. The research was published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.Researchers at Dartmouth College in have discovered a gene that controls the regulation of iron uptake in plants. The newly-discovered gene, known as Upstream Regulator of IRT1 (URI), controls when genes should be expressed in plant roots to begin iron uptake. According to the team, URI controls as many as 1,500 other genes, including those that have A team of NMSU anthropologists and botanistsnothing to do with iron.is using a grant from the New Mexico Bureau of Oxfam, Plantum and Euroseeds just released a new Land Management to study ancient corn throughpublication that clarifies the scope of private and non-3D imaging and DNA analysis to reveal cluescommercial use of seeds for smallholder farmers using about how ancient peoples domesticated corn innew plant varieties under the UPOV Convention. the Southwest. NMSU researchers hope to learnA national U.S. Department of Agriculture survey, more about how these tiny corncobs contributepublished recently in Plant Disease, provides the first large-scale, systematic insight into how wheat and to the diversity of corn, including sweet cornbarley growers manage Fusarium head blight (FHB), found in the grocery story today. also known as scab, and where they get information on how to control this destructive disease.A team of researchers at the University of GeorgiaResearchers have discovered a gene that controls the has found a way to identify gene regulatory elementsregulation of iron uptake in plants, according to a new that could help produce designer plants and leadstudy from Dartmouth College. The gene signals when to improvements in food crops at a critical time. Theyplants should allow the transport of iron by toggling a published their findings in two separate papers ingenetic pathway that includes hundreds of other genes.Nature Plants.In Dawson, Georgia, on November 22, 2019, the With the world population projected to reach 9.1 billionNational Peanut Research Laboratory celebrated 50 by 2050, world food production will need to rise byyears of research on the popular legume. At the lab, 70% and food production in the developing world willwhich is part of the Agricultural Research Service, need to double, according to estimates from the Foodscientists in various disciplines work together to find and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.ways to develop and grow peanuts better and more efficiently, no matter where they are planted, and to Researchers from Australias national science agency,maintain their quality and safety after harvest.CSIRO, together with partners in the U.S. and South Africa have solved a 20-year-old mystery with findingsThe Australian Seed Federation welcomed the published in Nature Communications. Their workspassage of the amended Gene Technology shows that the devastating Ug99 strain of the wheatRegulations through the Senate. Throughout history, 82/ SEEDWORLD.COMJANUARY 2020'