Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 7664 / SEEDWORLD.COM SEPTEMBER 2016 INDUSTRY NEWS Delivering the people, industry, business and product news you need to know. Submissions are welcome. Email us at news@issuesink.com. Montana State University has completed an agreement to license a new variety of hard red spring wheat to Northern Seed. Northern Seed will lead the market development, data collection and production plans for this new Clearfield line. Dow AgroSciences agrees to license Plextein — a high throughput method for detecting and quantitating multiple proteins in plants — to EPL Bio Analytical Services. The non- exclusive license agreement grants EPL access to patented intellectual property targeting improvements in the speed, quality and efficiency of protein quantitation in plants by mass spectrometry. A scientific breakthrough on the DNA sequencing of the peanut promises the development of improved varieties with enhanced traits such as increased pod and oil yield, drought and heat tolerance and greater disease resistance. A team of 51 scientists from 9 institutes in China, India, the United States and Australia, including the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), have decoded the complete DNA sequencing of the ancestor of the peanut, The official opening of Bayer Crop Science’s new wheat breeding station in Pike Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, took place on June 10 and is representative of a $24 million investment by Bayer into Canadian wheat breeding and a larger 10-year investment of $1.9 billion into global wheat breeding technologies. The cutting- edge facility will bring together multiple aspects of wheat breeding into one centralized location and will include an analytical lab, pathology research space and quality laboratory with an accompanying 2,550 square feet of environmentally controlled, off-site greenhouse space. the diploid A-genome. Other significant traits this could help develop include aflatoxin-free, nutrition-rich and allergen- free varieties. DuPont Pioneer and Hexima discover a novel insect control gene that is active against certain crop-destroying insects and will help growers protect their yields. As growers struggle with pest pressure, new solutions are needed to maintain crop productivity. The gene comes from a unique genetic resource pool and offers a promising new way to protect crops globally from the devastating damage that occurs when insect feeding goes uncontrolled. A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporat- ing rice husk to soil can decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield. This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health. Global plant phenotyping specialist LemnaTec has unveiled the largest field robot in the world, capable of continu- ously monitoring the development of crops under real growing conditions. The new Field Scanalyzer was built for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as part of a program to “develop tools that enable an increase in the rate and extent of genetic improvement of the yield of bioenergy crops grown in the field.” The machine is installed at the University of Arizona’s Maricopa Agricultural Center. Following the January 2016 announce- ment of the production of a whole genome assembly for bread wheat, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), having completed quality control, is now making this breakthrough resource avail-