This *must* be a legendary scene for turfgrass breeders. https://youtu.be/NaqGBF9nUb8?t=294

#PlantBreeding

🌱 📅 Fragaria x ananassa (#strawberry) is our choice for the CPVO's "Plant of the Month" of July.
🍓 Despite its name, strawberry is considered an “accessory fruit” and is not a true berry.
📁 It has also received over 800 applications at the #CPVO since 1995.
#plantbreeding https://t.co/BWaHLAlA5R

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1679484971822755840

EU commission today issued their legal stand on New Genomic Techniques as opposed to GMOs. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_23_3568

#PlantBreeding #PlantScience

Another story where universities hanging onto stuff (aka germplasm conservation) helps with new developments.

"Prof Eric Holub, from the university's Life Sciences department, said: "The work that I have been involved with started in 2011, but actually it was inherited material that had been used here on the university farm in the 1970s and 80s." #PlantBreeding

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-65908618

It's my understanding we no longer have much apricot breeding going on in this US (a shame...and a crop I'd hoped to learn to breed when I decided to go to grad school). However, Craig Ledbetter & others were able to make good progress on size because Winters Fruit Tree had apricots the size of a small peach today. #PlantBreeding #Horticulture

One example of how much less info in my field I get (so far) on Mastodon is that I only found out Bernadine Strik had died when I snuck onto the birdsite just now.

Oregon berry breeding has really taken a hit with the untimely death of Chad Finn in 2019 and now Bernadine Strik.

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/16/oregon-berry-goddess-bernadine-strik-blueberries-horticulture/

#Horticulture #PlantBreeding

Novel molecular module for #seed size and weight control provides promising molecular breeding targets➡️better #seed traits for #soybean. #PlantBreeding #agriculture #CropScience
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13494
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantScience

RT @Bayer4Crops: Taste the fruit of #innovation in #plantbreeding with our degustation of tomato varieties, spiced up with keynotes by @Franc_Bogovic and @InzeDirk. Confirm your attendance here: EU-PublicAffairs@bayer.com https://t.co/bQaSPpi0jH

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Franc_Bogovic/status/1650530343793971201

RT @MessmerMonika
check the 2nd PhD paper of Benedikt Haug on #plantbreeding for #intercropping of #cereals & #legumes @FiBLBreeding @fiblorg just published
New insights towards breeding for mixed cropping of spring pea and bar... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378429023001168
@RemixIntercrops @INRAE_France

Agave parrasana x colorata in bloom at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Concord, CA. (Bred by Brian Kimble, the garden's curator.)

Had a lovely masked outdoors meeting with Dr. Mary Williams, features editor of The Plant Cell.

#BotanicGarden #garden #PlantBreeding

For all that people go wild over marker-assisted breeding, the leading avocado and the leading almond cultivars in CA are both the results of planting out seedlings. They were chance seedling accidents.

#PlantBreeding #AgHistory

📈This graph shows the applications for EU #intellectualproperty protection of new vegetable varieties over the years.

🥦🥕Since 1995, we have received over 11.000 applications for vegetable species.

You can find more information here: https://cpvo.europa.eu/en/statistics

#plantbreeding

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1635599515578408960

📊This graph shows the distribution per crop sector of the applications we receive from January 1 to March 3, 2023.

📗Since the beginning of the year, we have received over 560 applications.

➡️Find our statistics here:
http://cpvo.europa.eu/en/statistics

#NewPlantVarieties #Plantbreeding

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1633105450034929664

The postponed Plant Breeding Retreat is doing the same thing. Despite my having written immediately about online access as soon as both were announced.

They said the same thing as last time...they were "discussing potential online options" but the registration form is up today and it emphasizes it's an in person retreat. They know what they're doing. #DisabledInSTEM #PlantBreeding #AcademicAbleism #Ableism #DisabilityLaw #DIsability #HigherEd

📊This graph shows the titles granted by the #CPVO vs. the titles terminated between 1996 and 2022.

📗Since 1996, we granted over 62k titles, with over 30k titles currently in force.

📈You can find our statistics here: https://cpvo.europa.eu/en/statistics

#NewPlantVarieties #plantbreeding

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1631633319698857984

📈This graph shows the applications for protection of new ornamental varieties over the years.

💐Since 1995, we have received over 41.000 applications for ornamental species.

➡️You can find our statistics here: https://cpvo.europa.eu/en/statistics

#NewPlantVarieties #plantbreeding

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1630957182068957185

🪴📅The #CPVO's Plant of the Month for February is the #soybean!

❓This is the period in which the soy bean seeds are collected, and currently there are more and more applications for the protection of this plant's new varieties.

#NewPlantVarieties #plantbreeding #horticulture

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1630236167793954816

RT @CzemborH: 🧑‍🎓🧬🔬🧩🌾🧑‍🌾📈💚
DIVERSITY OF BARLEY #landraces
➡️Research Team of Prof. dr hab. Jerzy H. Czembor
#IHAR-PIB #Radzików - Institute #MRiRW
➡️https://ihar.edu.pl/pliki/Artykul/10261_CzemborJHResearchCV.pdf
#barley #jęczmień
#agrobank #gospostrateg #NCBR
#genebank #bankgenów #biodiversity #plantbreeding #hodowlaroślin

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1626687636034277408

@mattinaFrancesc, President of the #CPVO, gave a lecture yesterday about the role of plant breeding to strengthen farmers' toolbox at the @ScuolaSantAnna

🤝Part of our mission is to connect with students and raise more awareness about #PlantBreeding & #PVR

Grazie per l'invito!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1628300821501825028

📈This graph shows the change in the number of applications for new fruit varieties protection.

📗Since 1995, the #CPVO has received over 5300 applications for fruit species.

📊Find our statistics here: https://cpvo.europa.eu/en/statistics

#NewPlantVarieties #plantbreeding #horticulture

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CPVOTweets/status/1627673861582987265