2Blades News

News and press releases about 2Blades’ activities:

April 10, 2024

2Blades Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

April 9, 2024

Spotlight: Q&A with Jonathan Jones

April 5, 2024

2Blades Receives Congressional Funding to Advance Corn Mycotoxin Research

April 5, 2024

2Blades Welcomes Appolinaire Djikeng to Board of Directors

February 27, 2024

Open position in 2Blades Group in St. Paul, MN

February 14, 2024

2Blades Delivers on Project with Bayer Crop Science In Effort to Combat Asian Soybean Rust

February 14, 2024

2Blades 2023 Annual Report

January 5, 2024

White Paper on Agbiotech in Developing Countries Published in Nature Plants

December 22, 2023

Spotlight: Q & A with Sylvia Wulf

November 16, 2023

2Blades and Computomics Launch Pilot Project using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools to Accelerate Discovery of Disease-resistant Genes Across Crop Species

October 31, 2023

2Blades and Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation Host Discussion at 2023 World Food Prize

October 30, 2023

2Blades Licenses TALEN Technology to NAPIGEN for Organelle Editing

October 6, 2023

“Fighting Back Against Asian Soybean Rust,” 2Blades’ work featured in SeedWorld

August 18, 2023

Spotlight: Q & A with Karen Century

August 3, 2023

2Blades Launches Program to Tackle Asian Soybean Rust for African Growers

April 21, 2023

2Blades Mention by Chicago’s Better and Our Commitment on Earth Day

April 5, 2023

2Blades and International Collaboration Publish the Annotated Genome Sequence of the Soybean Rust Pathogen

March 23, 2023

2Blades Welcomes New Leadership Team Members, Sets Sights on New Crop Disease Projects

February 12, 2023

Expert Panel Discusses Climate Resilient Crops and Supply Chains

February 6, 2023

Molecular Biologist Sought to Develop Resistance Against Mycotoxigenic Fungi in Corn

January 27, 2023

Increases in Agriculture R&D Are Justified To Combat Risks To Global Wheat Supplies From Crop Pathogens

November 28, 2022

Postdoctoral Opening in St. Paul, MN

November 11, 2022

2Blades Announces AIM for Climate Innovation Sprint Focused on Plant Diversity and Gene Tools to Combat Disease Threats to Legumes

November 1, 2022

AIM for Climate COP27 Roadshow Event: Advancing Agricultural Innovation for Climate-Resilient Crops

October 31, 2022

Job opening – Director of External Affairs

August 19, 2022

2Blades Seeks Group Leader Based at Norwich BioScience Institute, Norwich, UK

July 20, 2022

2Blades and Corteva Agriscience Reach Collaboration Milestone in Development of Durable Resistance for Latin American Soybean Varieties

March 28, 2022

Job Announcement: 2Blades Business Development Manager (BDM)

March 10, 2022

2Blades Founder and Chair Dr. Roger Freedman Stepping Down

January 21, 2022

Job Announcement: 2Blades Principal Investigator/Group Leader Position based at University of Minnesota

August 20, 2021

Chicago Council Blog by Diana Horvath – From Molecule to Market: Using Innovative Plant Breeding to Build Global Food Security

July 22, 2021

Newly Published Research Helps Combat Devastating Disease of Wheat Plants

March 23, 2021

2Blades-funded Research on Rye Genome Published in Nature Genetics

February 15, 2021

Bayer and 2Blades Foundation Extend Agreement into 2023 to bolster Asian Soybean Rust Research

February 8, 2021

Plant Breeding Innovation: TALENs (Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases)

February 8, 2021

What are TALENs and how will they impact global food security?

January 25, 2021

Blog: We need vaccines to protect our food crops, too

January 4, 2021

Nature Biotechnology publishes 2Blades Foundation-supported research on wheat resistant to devastating rust fungal diseases

August 17, 2020

High Plains Journal Cover Article: ‘Back to the Future of Wheat’

August 5, 2020

2Blades Foundation, FFAR, and UC Berkeley to Collaborate on Advanced Gene Editing to Fight Plant Disease in Wheat

July 24, 2020

2Blades Scientist Peter van Esse featured in Eastern Daily Press Article

July 13, 2020

SciDev.Net Features 2Blades President Diana Horvath: Crop Disease Pandemic Coming ‘Sooner Rather than Later’

July 1, 2020

A Conversation between 2Blades Chair Roger Freedman and Our New Board Member Rob Horsch

June 16, 2020

USDA Awards 2Blades Foundation $650,000 to Study Wild Emmer Wheat for Rust Disease Resistance

June 2, 2020

Solving the Asian Soybean Rust Puzzle

May 29, 2020

Guest Commentary – A Water Mold Helped Kill a Million People, Then Changed Science Forever

May 26, 2020

Former University of Illinois President Robert Easter Joins 2Blades Foundation Sustainability Council

May 8, 2020

2Blades’ TALENs gene-editing tool improves disease resistance in food crops

May 1, 2020

Guest Commentary – When Fighting Pathogens ‘Pay a Little Now or a Lot Later’

April 15, 2020

Guest Commentary – The Next Pandemic Could Attack Our Crops

November 7, 2019

Twenty-year old mystery of cereal killer origin solved

November 6, 2019

Crop disease gets personal

October 26, 2019

Podcast: Cameron English at GLP talks with Diana Horvath about crop disease

September 30, 2019

Complete genome of devastating soybean pathogen assembled

August 22, 2019

Researchers reveal plant defense toolkit and insights for fighting crop diseases

July 19, 2019

2Blades completed a non-exclusive license with BHN

March 12, 2019

2Blades Foundation launches Sustainability Council

March 12, 2019

Wheat lines from 2Blades, CSIRO, and UMN exhibit exceptional stem rust resistance in the field

December 11, 2018

2Blades publicly releases additional resistance gene DNA sequence data

November 5, 2018

2Blades announces completion of a non-exclusive license with Epicrop Technologies Inc. for access to the TAL Code technology

November 2, 2018

Chicago screening of Food Evolution

October 29, 2018

Crop disease in the big picture

October 24, 2018

2Blades and EarthWork Seeds, Inc. have completed a non-exclusive license for pepper breeding

September 14, 2018

2Blades named as Top 100 Finalist in the 2018 Chicago Innovation Awards

July 25, 2018

International Congress on Plant Pathology: Advancing disease resistant traits from lab to field

June 29, 2018

Putting Science into Action to Address Threats to Food Security Caused by Crop Diseases

June 20, 2018

2018 EAT Forum: Tackling crop disease is vital for the future of smallholder agriculture

May 22, 2018

Monsanto and 2Blades Foundation Collaborate to Combat Devastating Soybean Disease

April 6, 2018

GMO 2.0 at SXSW

March 28, 2018

The role of sugar and water in the infection battle ground

March 20, 2018

New issue of the 2Blades newsletter

March 19, 2018

2Blades announces new collaboration with the Plant Innovation Center of Japan Tobacco

March 2, 2018

2Blades adds support to fight against maize lethal necrosis disease

November 6, 2017

Understanding the molecular basis of disease resistance in plants

October 15, 2017

2Blades publicly releases resistance gene sequence data

September 28, 2017

2Blades selected as finalist in 2017 Agrow Awards

June 14, 2017

Special issue of The Biochemist on Emerging Diseases

April 28, 2017

New edition of 2Blades Newsletter

February 7, 2017

How can genomics help neglected crops fight disease?

February 3, 2017

A.G.R Seeds licenses resistance gene marker for pepper

January 30, 2017

2Blades forms collaboration with Monsanto to combat corn diseases

December 14, 2016

2Blades partners with IRRI to provide access to gene-editing technology for rice

December 7, 2016

2Blades and CIMMYT form alliance to tackle threat of wheat stem rust

November 12, 2016

2Blades among finalists for Chicago’s 2016 50 on Fire Awards

November 4, 2016

2Blades helps to improve chickpea for Ethiopia

September 20, 2016

2Blades newsletter launched today

August 8, 2016

2Blades supports late blight resistance for potatoes in Africa

July 11, 2016

2Blades attends Africa Agriculture Science Week

June 9, 2016

Nature Biotechnology publishes three reports on disease resistance genes

May 25, 2016

2Blades licenses bs5 gene to VoloAgri

April 26, 2016

2Blades appoints Jack Westwood as External Affairs Director

April 25, 2016

Disease resistance work featured in Nature Biotechnology

April 17, 2016

2Blades welcomes Dr. Sarah Schmidt to the 2Blades Group at The Sainsbury Laboratory

April 11, 2016

Prof. Cyril Zipfel joins 2Blades Science Advisory Board

March 8, 2016

2Blades partners with The Sainsbury Laboratory and J.R. Simplot Company to develop resistance against potato diseases

February 16, 2016

Rijk Zwaan licenses 2Blades’ pepper technology

November 9, 2015

2Blades and United Genetics have completed a non-exclusive license agreement for pepper breeding.

September 15, 2015

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded 2Blades a $2.3 million grant to examine the diversity of resistance genes in plants.

September 10, 2015

2Blades awarded a funding contract from the Citrus Research and Development Foundation

September 5, 2015

Bs2 tomato featured in podcast

August 4, 2015

2Blades completed a non-exclusive license with Bejo Zaden

December 18, 2014

Cellectis Plant Sciences and Two Blades Foundation Announce the Execution of a Cross-License Agreement on TAL Effector Nuclease Technologies

July 28, 2014

2Blades completes license agreement with Pepper Research

July 21, 2014

2Blades and Sakata Seed have completed a non-exclusive license for pepper breeding

April 16, 2014

2Blades warmly welcomes new Program Director Lynne Reuber to our organization.

February 5, 2014

The Plant Management Network posted an educational webcast about bacterial spot-resistant tomatoes carrying the pepper Bs2 gene today as part of their Focus on Tomato series

February 3, 2014

2Blades and DuPont Pioneer announce a research collaboration to develop durable resistance against Asian Soybean Rust with partners at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil and The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK

August 15, 2013

Science today published on-line a review on the progress and potential for deploying disease resistance in crop plants in a special issue on smarter pest control

June 25, 2013

2Blades announces that a second patent in 2Blades’ TAL Code patent estate issued today

May 13, 2013

2Blades announces that the first TAL effector patent issued on April 16, 2013

April 19, 2013

Useful open resource for plant resistance genes

April 3, 2013

2Blades is delighted to welcome Professor Sir David Baulcombe to our Scientific Advisory Board

December 10, 2012

2Blades continues broad license access to its award-winning TAL technology through a non-exclusive license to Dupont Pioneer for uses in certain crops. Improvements to the technology will be granted back for 2Blades’ humanitarian projects benefiting subsistence farming.

November 7, 2012

2Blades’ TAL Code technology wins 2012 Agrow Award for Best Novel Agricultural Biotechnology

October 9, 2012

2Blades has signed a non-exclusive license with Mendel Biotechnology for the TAL code technology

September 11, 2012

2Blades collaborator Prof. John Scott of the University of Florida presented trial results on transgenic disease resistance in Florida tomato varieties last week at the annual Tomato Institute meeting

September 4, 2012

2Blades announces the expansion of rights to Monsanto under our non-exclusive license, announced in April, 2012, for broader access to the TAL Code technology. 2Blades will continue to receive a grant back of improvements to the technology for use in 2Blades’ humanitarian projects

August 11, 2012

Results of tomato field trials demonstrating bacterial spot resistance and yield improvement were published today in PLOS ONE

July 9, 2012

2Blades announces the completion of a non-exclusive license with KWS for access to the TAL Code technology. KWS will grant improvements in the technology back to 2Blades for subsistence farming applications.

May 1, 2012

2Blades is pleased to announce completion of a non-exclusive license agreement with Bayer CropScience for the TAL code genome engineering technology. 2Blades will receive improvements to the TAL code for use in its subsistence farming applications.

April 16, 2012

Monsanto has completed a non-exclusive license with 2Blades for commercial uses of the TAL Code technology in plants. Improvements to the technology will be granted back for 2Blades’ humanitarian projects benefiting subsistence farming

March 19, 2012

Services for TAL effector-based research tools were launched today by Life Technologies

January 16, 2012

2Blades announces the signing of a non-exclusive license for the TAL Code technology to Syngenta for commercial uses in crop plants. Syngenta will grant 2Blades access to its improvements to the technology for use in 2Blades’ humanitarian efforts to support subsistence farming.

June 10, 2011

2Blades announces the licensing of the plant rights for the TAL Effector Code to Life Technologies for research tool applications

August 1, 2010

2Blades is delighted to announce the addition of Professor Jim Carrington to our Science Advisory Board

March 15, 2010

New defenses deployed against plant diseases

July 20, 2009

2Blades and The Sainsbury Laboratory partner to enhance the translation of fundamental discoveries in plant-pathogen interactions into practical applications in the field