b'INDUSTRY NEWSTAILORED TO SEED PROFESSIONALS, INDUSTRY NEWS DELIVERS THE PEOPLE, RESEARCH, BUSINESS AND PRODUCT NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW. SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME. EMAIL US AT NEWS@SEEDWORLDGROUP.COM.INDUSTRY NEWSIn the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which willFour seed organizationsthe Canadian Plant Technology take effect after 2022, the European Commission wants MemberAgency (CPTA); the Commercial Seed Analysts Association of States to determine how they want to achieve green goals. ThisCanada (CSAAC); the Canadian Seed Institute (CSI); and the year the Netherlands must draw up a National Strategic Plan forCanadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) have amalgamated to the implementation of the CAP. Researchers from Wageningenbecome one new, national seed association called Seeds Canada. Environmental Research have outlined the options for climate,Uniting under the Seeds Canada banner will result in a stronger environment and biodiversity (the so-called green-blue goals).lobbying voice for the seed sector and enhanced services for Their report was presented to the House of Representatives bymembers and clients, the new Seeds Canada website states.Minister Schouten.RESEARCH NEWSA new UK centre of excellence is being set up by partners on theGreen Transition Researchers at the University of Copenhagen Norwich Research Park to improve global food security whichhave demonstrated that unique fungi strengthen the immune is threatened by the effects of climate change. The Norwichsystems of wheat and bean plants against aphids. Fungi enter Institute for Sustainable Development, launched Feb. 1and influence the amount of a plants own defences, resulting will focus on developing solutions to enable farmers all overin fewer aphids. The results could serve to reduce agricultural the world to build resilience to variability in rainfall, periods ofinsecticide use and bring Denmark a step further along the path drought and more extreme and unpredictable weather events.towards its green transition.The Institute is launched with 750,000 of funding from the John Innes Foundation, and marks an important landmark. This is the first formal partnership of the internationally-recognisedIn a collaboration with colleagues at the University of Budapest, expertise in plant science from the John Innes Centre and theUniversity of Copenhagen researchers have analysed and com-social sciences from UEAs School of International Development. pared a number of samples of green aphids from apples around the world and discovered a new apple-loving pest in Denmark. The bright greenish yellow spirea aphidAphis spiraecola which most The number of seed samples requested from NordGen haslikely originates in East Asia, has gradually become a widespread increased a lot the last few months. In the last two years, thepest in tropical and temperate regions around the planet. While it number of distributed seed samples has almost doubled. Thisis especially problematic for citrus and apple trees, it can attack is great news, indicating that the important research infrastruc- many other plant species. The aphid has been in the United States ture that the seeds constitute are being used and thereby con- for the last 100 years and was discovered in Mediterranean coun-tributing to new solutions for a more sustainable agriculture. tries in 1939. However, the spirea aphid has never been witnessed in the Nordic countries before.The International Seed Federation (ISF) welcomes the announcement of the first voluntary notification of genomeAfter years of breeding, Bejo/DGS introduces the first downy edited high-GABA tomato in Japan. The Japanese minis- mildew resistant shallot from seed, Innovator. A hybrid vari-tries in charge announced their determination that the genomeety with a slightly longer bulb and a distinct colour, which is edited GABA tomato will not be regulated as a genetically mod- suitable for the long day areas. ified product.38IEUROPEAN SEEDIEUROPEAN-SEED.COM'