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Dear subscriber to KeyGene's Newsletter,
In this March 2024 Newsletter we offer you a last-minute possibility to register for Crop Innovation & Business 2024. We also update you about
the Vici grant for groundbreaking robotics research in which KeyGene is a partner, a recent paper co-authored by KeyGene scientists about genetic diversity in the fungus causing TR4 Fusarium Wilt Panama disease in banana, and our collaboration with TakaraBio in single nucleus analysis in pollen grains. | |
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'Last call': registration for CropIB in Ghent, 24-26 March | | |
Less than three weeks to go till the top in crop innovation, technology innovation and business meet in the charming city of Ghent, Belgium. | | | |
CropIB 2024 is again co-organized by VIB, Belgium and CEPLAS in Germany, supported by Iventus, the Netherlands.
During the Crop Innovation & Business (CropIB) conference on March 24-26 (Sunday-Tuesday), we will dive into the drivers of crop innovation with the latest trends in the interplay of technological innovations, market developments, business opportunities and societal demands.
The following topics will be covered in 8 different sessions: - Precision breeding and -agriculture
- Emerging seed technologies and -production
- Public-Private Partnerships
- A plant-based future
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- New DNA technologies and applications
- Reshaping the Ag value chain - the protein transition case
- Adapting to evolving legislation and regulations
Don´t miss this opportunity to gain insights into the latest advancements, trends, and best practices on the use of new technologies for breeding innovative crops!
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NWO Vici grant for research on Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence for autonomous robots | | |
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Guido de Croon and his team will tackle the daunting challenge of developing a neuromorphic AI that gives full autonomy to small robots. This intelligence will be inspired by insect brains an based on neural networks that come close to the real neurons in the brains of animals. That will lead to much less energy consumption and much faster information processing.
KeyGene is one of the business partners contributing to this novel AI approach.
Read more in the post on the website of TU Delft | |
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Evolution of Fusarium TR4 strain has increased diversity in ‘virulence’-DNA of the fungus | | |
Recent evolution in the soil-borne fungus causing Fusarium Wilt in banana (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense) was driven by large-scale duplications in parts of the fungal DNA that are known to be the source of its ‘virulence’ genes.
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6 KeyGene experts are co-authors of a scientific paper that presents this insight, recently published by an international research team which was led by Utrecht University and Wageningen University & Research, both in the Netherlands.
Read the news item on the website of KeyGene | |
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Studying nuclei of individual pollen grains is feasible now | | |
A collaboration between Takara Bio and KeyGene has made it possible to successfully carry out single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) in pollen. Thanks to the collaboration, Takara Bio’s powerful transcriptomics technology could be combined with the power of KeyGene’s nuclei isolation procedure and expertise in pollen-specific gene expression.
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A single nucleus expression analysis was run for 4 well-characterized genes involved in pollen tube growth, expected to be active in the vegetative nucleus only. The high-quality results revealed the presence of the corresponding messenger RNAs in both nuclei types. | | | |
The genes are thus expressed in generative and vegetative nuclei, which gives new insights into the spatial expression of pollen genes.
Read the news item on KeyGene's website | |
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