https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/Recent content in Crop biotech on BioeconHugoen-UShttps://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/allelopathic-crops/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/allelopathic-crops/Plants that poison their neighbours — real chemistry, and why the soil decides how much of it matters.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/biofortification-of-crops/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/biofortification-of-crops/Raising the concentration of a nutrient in a grain is the easy half. Getting it absorbed is the other one.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/climate-resilient-crops/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/climate-resilient-crops/“Drought tolerance” names an outcome, not a mechanism — and the mechanisms that produce it usually cost yield when the rain arrives.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/genetic-design-ornamental-landscape-plants/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/genetic-design-ornamental-landscape-plants/Ornamentals are where plant engineering is easiest to sell and hardest to hide: the trait is the product, and the customer looks at it.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/genetic-engineering-bio-selection/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/genetic-engineering-bio-selection/Almost everything a farmer buys a variety for is polygenic — which is why the most powerful tool in breeding predicts genes it never identifies.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/grafting-platforms-vegetables/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/grafting-platforms-vegetables/Two plants joined at the stem give a root system with resistance and a fruit that is genetically untouched.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/mars-closed-loop-food-systems/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/mars-closed-loop-food-systems/A crew’s food is an accounting problem in mass, power and nitrogen before it is a farming problem.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/nitrogen-fixing-cereals/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/nitrogen-fixing-cereals/The hardest unsolved problem in this cluster: an enzyme that oxygen destroys, in a plant that cannot stop making oxygen.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/nitrogen-fixing-microbial-inoculants/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/nitrogen-fixing-microbial-inoculants/Rhizobial inoculants work because the symbiosis already exists — the product supplies a partner, not a capability.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/perennial-grains/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/perennial-grains/A plant that intends to live through winter cannot put everything into seed — which is the whole problem, stated as arithmetic.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/phenomics-high-throughput-phenotyping/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/phenomics-high-throughput-phenotyping/Sequencing got cheap and measuring plants did not, so the limit on breeding moved to the field.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/precision-plant-breeding-crispr/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/precision-plant-breeding-crispr/Editing is excellent at breaking a gene and poor at building a yield — and in most species the real obstacle is still getting the edit into a plant that will regrow.https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/speed-breeding-seed-services/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.bioecon.ru/docs/agri-food/crop-biotech/speed-breeding-seed-services/Extended daylength buys generations per year. It does not buy better decisions about which plants to keep.