December 04, 2025
We are pleased to announce that the next edition of CROP Innovation & Business (CropIB) will take place in Wageningen, the Netherlands, from 29–31 March 2026. The conference will be hosted at Omnia, Wageningen University & Research’s state-of-the-art venue at the heart of one of the world’s leading agri-food innovation ecosystems.
July 11, 2025
Our recent CropIB conference in Cologne, Germany, brought together breeding, AgBio and AgTech companies, academics, investors, startups and experts from the international agri-food industry to explore the future of crop innovation. If you haven't seen it yet — or want to experience the energy all over again — don’t miss the official aftermovie!
April 08, 2025
Registrations are officially open!
The wait is over - Euroseeds2025 is back!
March 18, 2025
The Climate Challenge in Plant Breeding
As climate change accelerates, climate resilience has become a cornerstone of modern breeding programs.
However, progress in developing climate-adapted crop varieties is hindered by a limited understanding of changing genotype-by-environment interactions (GxEs).
March 17, 2025
The contemporary genomic laboratory faces many challenges associated with nucleic acid isolation and purification. In part these are related to the hazardous reagents that have become the standard in the industry. The standardized methods using (magnetic bead-based) DNA isolation currently rely heavily on flammable and hazardous substances such as isopropanol, ethanol and chaotropic salts.
February 24, 2025
The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS) is expanding its research transfer activities through the TRANSPLANT initiative, launched in 2024. This collaborative project, involving Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Cologne, and Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve, is funded by the NRW Ministry for Culture and Science.
February 03, 2025
Biotech start-ups will see more venture capital (VC) investment this year, according to Annick Verween, who leads Biotope, an incubator set up by the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology. “Part of this is a prediction, and part of this is a very strong hope,” she told Science|Business.
November 07, 2024
In two months from now, KeyGene and Sanya Yazhou Bay Innovation Research Co. Ltd. will organize the first edition of CropIB Asia in Sanya, Hainan, China.