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60 SEEDWORLD.COM JUNE 2016 INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering the people industry business and product news you need to know. Submissions are welcome. Email us at newsissuesink.com. A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh are working to address wheat blast an emerging threat to Asian agriculture. The fungal disease was spotted in Bangladesh in February the first report in Asia. The blast disease has caused up to 90 percent yield loss on more than 15000 hectares. Scientists fear that the pathogen could spread to other wheat growing areas in South Asia. Faced with a pathogen signaling chemicals within plant cells travel different routes to tell the plant to turn on its defense mechanisms according to a University of Kentucky study. Understanding these pathways and chemicals may allow scien- tists to help plants fend off a wide range of pathogens. Two Texas AM AgriLife Research scientists are studying the virtual tug-of-war that takes place when a pathogen attacks a plant. In mid-battle the pathogen and the plant undergo dynamic changes to improve their chances of victory. Better understanding those changes could unlock new ways to improve plants by making them more disease-resistant. Researchers from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture completed the first comprehensive multi-year study of honeybee parasites and disease as part of the National Honey Bee Disease Survey. The results published online in the journalApidologie provide an important five-year baseline against which to track future trends. Researchers at Monsanto and Harvard University have pub- lished the results of a study using PACE technology in Nature. It showcases how the new application of protein science can be applied to agriculture. The ability to speed the discovery of improved proteins fosters faster crop improvement as proteins New plant evolution simulations by researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of College London Institute of Archaeology reveal an unexpected limit to how far useful crops can be pushed to adapt before they suffer population collapse. The simulations have significant implications for how growers breeders and scientists help agriculture and horticulture respond to climate change. Left This graph illustrates a probability landscape of population survival p for a given number of loci g under a selection coefficient s. are the building blocks to agronomic traits such as insect control and herbi- cide tolerance. A 2.1 million grant will help Iowa State University plant scientists study how corn responds to environmental stress at the genetic level. The three-year grant awarded by the National Science Foundation could set the stage for plant breeders to develop corn varieties that are more resilient to adverse environmen- tal conditions. A team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin Madison horticulture professor and geneticistPhil Simon deciphered the carrots full genetic code. This knowledge could lead to the improvement of similar crops such as parsnip and yellow-fleshed cassava. BUSINESS NEWS Meiogenix a biotech company that develops breeding technologies will collaborate with Bayers Crop Science Division to apply SpiX technology in crops. Under this non-exclusive agree- ment Meiogenix will provide access to the SpiX technology and the know-how that Meiogenix has built through its research with rice maize and wheat.