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74 SEEDWORLD.COM JUNE 2015 INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering the people industry business and product news you need to know. Submissions are welcome. Email us at newsissuesink.com. It took decades of work but University of Illinois research geneticist Ram Singh has managed to cross a popular soybean variety with a related wild perennial plant producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust soybean cyst nematode and other patho- gens. The research meanssoybean breeders now have access to dozens of new soybean lineages each with some of the traits of the wild Australian plants and the research continues. Scientists from BASF Crop Protection and the University of Gttingen in Germany have found a new insecticide target protein. The discovery marks the first identification of vanilloid receptors the TRPV ion channels transient receptor potential vanilloid as insecticide tar- gets. The results published in the journal Neuron could help to better manage insecticide resistance and have implica- tions for research and insecticide usage. By knowing the exact target of pymetro- zine and pyrifluquinazon the industry can better advise farmers on spray programs. The University of California Davisis giving local startups a leg up with a new business incubator space. The UC Davis-HM.CLAUSE Life Science Innovation Center combines the resources of the university and its cor- porate partnerHM.CLAUSE to provide laboratory facilities to help newly-formed companies take root in the region. Scientists at the University of Arizona and University of Illinois has yielded a low-allergen soybean with significantly reduced levels of three proteins respon- sible for its allergenic and anti-nutritional effects. The work is published in the journal Plant Breeding. After nearly a decade of crossbreeding each variety to the soybean reference genome called Williams 82 the team has produced a soybean that lacks most of the P34 and trypsin inhibitor protein and completely lacks soybean agglutinin. Beyond these characteristics the soy- bean is nearly identical to Williams 82. Theyve dubbed the new variety Triple Null. A research team from Canadian Light Sourcea synchrotron light science center hasimaged healthy and infected wheat spikes and florets to understand the development and progres- sion of Fusarium head blight. CLS usesthe brightest light in Canada millions of times brighter than the sun to get detailed information about the structural and chemical properties of materials at the molecular level with work ranging from mine tailing remediation to cancer research and cutting-edge materi- als development. Understanding how the fusarium infects the wheat plant will be a huge advantage to plant breeders trying to develop FHB-resistant varieties of wheat. It has long been thought that nutrients travel through all parts of the root to all parts of the plant where the roots behave much like simple sponges. However research published by Vernica Grieneisen of the John Innes Centre and Toru Fujiwara from the University of Tokyo challenges the current understanding of plant nutrient absorption through the roots. This research shows that individual sections of the root have distinct roles in nutrient uptake to ensure proper plant development. A deeper under- standing of such maps of nutrient transporters across the root could lead to the development of plants that absorb more or less of specific nutrients from the soil depending on region-specific environmental conditions. The Seed Biotechnology Center at the University of California Davis will host Program Management for Plant Breeders Sept. 22-24 at its Davis campus. The short-course is designed to enhance the management skills of professional scientists who lead and direct plant breeding and laboratory programs in modern agricultural research and development operations. To learn more view the website or contact Sally Mohr at sjmohrucdavis.edu or 530-752-5775. PHOTOKARINHIGGINS. This research shows that individual sections of the root have distinct roles in nutrient uptake to ensure proper plant development.