Crop Tech Corner

Speeding Up SCN Tests, Playing with Pollination

Emily Unglesbee
By  Emily Unglesbee , DTN Staff Reporter
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Canadian researchers have uncovered a gene that turns some fruit trees into self-pollinators, which they hope could be used to stem pollen drift from GE to non-GE crops. (DTN photo by Nick Scalise)
In this week's Crop Tech Corner, a new, faster method of testing soybean cyst nematode samples is under construction, researchers find a gene that could turn more plants into self-pollinators, and scientists produce a map of wheat's many genetic variations.

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