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Are We Spending the EU Money in the Right Places?

Posted on February 6, 2019, updated on February 12, 2019 by Marcel Bruins

Seen as a means to drive economic growth and create jobs, Horizon 2020 has the political backing of Europe’s leaders and the Members of the European Parliament. They agreed that research is an investment in our future and so they put it at the hear… Read More

  • EU
  • Feature Story
  • Innovation
  • Research

How the Finnish Seed Sector is Surviving Extreme Conditions

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Mari Raininko

Growing a crop in a growing season of 180 days can be hard. Breeding new varieties in such a climate provides even more challenges. Find out how the Finnish seed sector caters to this difficult environment. Finland Finland is located between the 60th… Read More

  • Crops
  • Feature Story
  • Research
  • sustainability

Agriculture & Science Groups Voice Support for International Statement on Plant Breeding Innovation

Posted on November 20, 2018 by European Seed

Eighteen national organizations representing agriculture and science communities recently joined together in signing a statement in support of the International Statement on Agricultural Applications of Precision Biotechnology (“the Internation… Read More

  • Feature Story

ESA Statement on ECJ Ruling C-528/16

Posted on September 21, 2018 by European Seed

The European seed sector acknowledges the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in case C-528/16 of 25. July 2018 by which the Court interpreted the provisions of the EU’s Directive 2001/18 in such a way that plants resulting from innovativ… Read More

  • Breeding Techniques
  • Business
  • Feature Story
  • Research
  • Technology

Call for Clarity after EU Ruling on Gene-Edited Crops

Posted on September 14, 2018 by European Seed

The John Innes Centre is joining a call for the Government to address the implications of a European Union judicial ruling that classes gene-edited crops as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). An open letter, signed by leading research institution… Read More

  • EU
  • Feature Story
  • Gene Editing
  • Research

Case C-528/16 Reaction: A Bleak View For Agricultural Innovation in the EU

Posted on July 25, 2018, updated on July 25, 2018 by European Seed

Many members of the plant breeding sector in Europe are voicing their opposition against the 25 July ruling stating that crops obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and are, in principle, subject to the obligations laid down by the GMO Directive. The Euro… Read More

  • Feature Story
  • News

£5 Million Boost to UK Research

Posted on July 3, 2018, updated on July 5, 2018 by European Seed

Four of the United Kingdom’s leading universities and research centres have been given a £5.3 million (around €6 milllion) boost to fund their work on improving crop resilience, sustainability and quality. The recipients, including ENDURE partne… Read More

  • Crops
  • Feature Story
  • Research
  • UK

Rewiring Plant Defence Genes To Reduce Crop Waste

Posted on June 18, 2018 by European Seed

Plants can be genetically rewired to resist the devastating effects of disease – significantly reducing crop waste worldwide – according to new research into synthetic biology by the University of Warwick. Led by Professor Declan Bates fr… Read More

  • Crops
  • Feature Story
  • Research

CRAG and UB Researchers Find Basic Mechanisms for Root Growth and Cell Replenishment

Posted on January 30, 2018 by European Seed

Understanding the functioning of root biology is crucial to know how plants suffer or adapt to adverse environmental conditions like droughts. Two recent studies describe these kinds of mechanisms: one of them, published in the journal Molecular Syst… Read More

  • Feature Story
  • Plant Breeding
  • Research

The Race is on for a CRISPR Patent

Posted on January 4, 2018, updated on January 5, 2018 by Alex Martin

Two parties have been battling for the rights to claim the patent for CRISPR, a genome editing system that will benefit the seed industry by allowing breeders to remove gene-based diseases in crops. The Broad Institution of the Massachusetts Institut… Read More

  • Breeding Techniques
  • CRISPR
  • Feature Story

All-In-One Repair Kit Makes CRISPR Gene Editing More Precise

Posted on November 27, 2017 by European Seed

For the past five years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized the field of gene editing due to its ease and low cost. But although this technology reliably finds and cuts the targeted stretch of DNA sequence, fixing that cut as desired has been … Read More

  • Breeding Techniques
  • Feature Story
  • Innovation
  • Plant Breeding

Crop Protection Through a Regulation with Protective Measures Against Plant Pests

Posted on November 5, 2017, updated on November 15, 2017 by Marcel Bruins

Towards the end of 2016, the EU adopted a new Plant Health Regulation which is planned to come into force in December 2019. Until then the EU Commission will work on so called secondary acts. European Seed asked Christophe Rouillard, Technical Manage… Read More

  • Crop Protection
  • EU
  • Feature Story
  • Phytosanitary Regulations
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Unlocking the Knowledge About The Potential Value Of A Variety

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton

We repeat it so often it begins to sound almost trite: the diversity of crops is vital for our future. The human population is growing, the land available for food production is decreasing, climate change imposes greater stresses on food production, … Read More

  • Feature Story
  • Technology

NordGen Deposits Own Seeds in Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Posted on October 20, 2017, updated on October 20, 2017 by European Seed

The wheels on the wagon carrying the boxes with seeds rolls steadily on the frozen ground. Fredrik Olsson and Åsmund Asdal navigates skilfully through the narrow door and on the frozen floor. They’ve done this many times before. Åsmund Asdal is t… Read More

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  • Seed Vault

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