January 30, 2026

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Multileaf lettuces offer unique colors, disease resistances

Embrapa abre edital para produção de sementes de trigo tropical

Spearhead Bio named 2026 "Startup to Watch"

Australian-first cereal solution for crown rot and nematodes

Limagrain Iberica - Catálogo de semillas de Maíz en Castilla y León

Feel the crunch in Rijk Zwaan's MyCubies snack cucumbers

The growing importance of Low Vicine/Convicine (LVC) spring bean varieties on the PGRO Descriptive list

Giornata Del Mais 2026 al CREA: la sfida della sostenibilità tra competitività e nuove soluzioni

Aligning wheat breeding with market needs in Ethiopia (Global Agriculture)

TriCal Superior Forage LLC files lawsuit in federal court against Michigan producer over PVP violations (Michigan Farm News)

St. Louis agtech startup Spearhead Bio raises $4M to speed up crop genome editing (St. Louis Business Journal)

Unveiling key genetic loci and candidate genes for brown spot disease resistance in rice based on QTL analysis (Nature)

How hybrid wheat could change farming (PreventionWeb)

New oat pangenome research explains why breeding has been slow and what could change next - Cracking crop’s pangenome could improve breeding decisions, but farmers still years away from seeing practical results (The Western Grower)

First graduates of University of Florida’s plant-breeding Ph.D. use genetics to help growers boost yields, improve shelf life, and more (Central Florida AgNews)