April 10, 2024 2Blades Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
February 14, 2024 2Blades Delivers on Project with Bayer Crop Science In Effort to Combat Asian Soybean Rust
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
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 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 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
July 20, 2022 2Blades and Corteva Agriscience Reach Collaboration Milestone in Development of Durable Resistance for Latin American Soybean Varieties
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
February 15, 2021 Bayer and 2Blades Foundation Extend Agreement into 2023 to bolster Asian Soybean Rust Research
January 4, 2021 Nature Biotechnology publishes 2Blades Foundation-supported research on wheat resistant to devastating rust fungal diseases
August 5, 2020 2Blades Foundation, FFAR, and UC Berkeley to Collaborate on Advanced Gene Editing to Fight Plant Disease in Wheat
July 13, 2020 SciDev.Net Features 2Blades President Diana Horvath: Crop Disease Pandemic Coming ‘Sooner Rather than Later’
June 16, 2020 USDA Awards 2Blades Foundation $650,000 to Study Wild Emmer Wheat for Rust Disease Resistance
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
March 12, 2019 Wheat lines from 2Blades, CSIRO, and UMN exhibit exceptional stem rust resistance in the field
November 5, 2018 2Blades announces completion of a non-exclusive license with Epicrop Technologies Inc. for access to the TAL Code technology
October 24, 2018 2Blades and EarthWork Seeds, Inc. have completed a non-exclusive license for pepper breeding
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
March 8, 2016 2Blades partners with The Sainsbury Laboratory and J.R. Simplot Company to develop resistance against potato diseases
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
December 18, 2014 Cellectis Plant Sciences and Two Blades Foundation Announce the Execution of a Cross-License Agreement on TAL Effector Nuclease Technologies
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
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
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
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