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HGS BioScience Strengthens Its Biological Solutions Platform with Pharmgrade Acquisition

American HGS BioScience, backed by Paine Schwartz Partners, has acquired Pharmgrade, a specialist in microbial products, to expand its biological solutions offering. This acquisition is part of a strategy to create an integrated and scalable platform, enabling retailers and farmers to navigate a fragmented biological market.

SEPEHR ACHARD, Source: Igronews, published under the title "HGS BioScience Acquires Pharmgrade to Expand Microbial Crop ..." - 14 January 2026

A New Spring Wheat Line to Reduce Economic Losses from Fusarium Head Blight

UNITED STATES. Researchers have developed a spring wheat line, WGC002, incorporating a gene for resistance to Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease responsible for significant economic losses in cereal production. This advancement could transform the fight against this disease, which caused estimated losses of $2.7 billion between 1998 and 2000, while posing health risks to consumers. The Fhb7 gene, derived from wild grasses, could provide a sustainable solution for farmers and wheat breeding programs.

Source: Agropages, published under the title "A new spring wheat germplasm promises to reduce economic los..." - 12 January 2026

Pairwise Shapes the Future of Food with NTG Innovations

As the European Union debates the deregulation of new genomic modification techniques (NGM), the American company Pairwise accelerates its strategic partnerships with Crispr/Cas, including its recent agreement with IRRI. Leveraging its Fulcrum platform and SHARC enzyme, Pairwise promises rapid agricultural innovations that are "non-GMO" – a claim contested in Europe, where these methods are regulated as such. These alliances, involving both public and private actors, could soon shape access to NGM and the arrival of new modified foods on our plates, raising ethical and regulatory questions.

Source: Info Ogm, published under the title "Pairwise façonne l’alimentation du futur à la sauce NTG" - 9 December 2025

Mexico: Multi-Scale Soil Assessment Using Remote Sensing and AI

Innovative Soil Assessment in Mexico: A study integrates multi-source remote sensing and machine learning to estimate organic carbon and soil strength in the Del Centro region. By combining terrain derivatives and categorical data, the best model achieves an R² of 0.84 and a MAE of 0.16, demonstrating gains of up to 73% in robustness through multi-scale variable fusion. These advancements enhance digital soil mapping for sustainable agriculture.

Source: Springer, published under the title "Multi-scale strength and characteristic assessment of soil m..." - 23 October 2025