Ag robotics startup TRIC Robotics has moved from half-acre trials in 2021 to treating more than 1,500 acres of commercia…

Nigerian AgriTech startup UfarmX has facilitated more than US$6.8 million in agricultural commerce across Nigeria, Senegal and Liberia, using blockchain-backed credit infrastructure and farmer data to connect more than 17,000 credit-scored smallholder farmers with agricultural inputs and markets.

世界农化网中文网报道：2026年8月29日，农业农村部办公厅发布关于异噁唑虫酰胺等化学物质特定用途管理认定的通知。

Why it matters: Spinal cord injury remains one of the major areas of unmet medical need in neurology. While acute care and rehabilitation can improve outcomes, there are currently no approved regenerative therapies capable of restoring lost neurological function. Damage to the spinal cord can therefore leave patients with permanent motor and sensory impairments.

A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School has shown that loss of function in the aldehyde dehydrogenase family 3 member B2 (ALDH3B2) gene can convert human pancreatic duct cells into functional β-like cells that can secrete insulin in response to glucose, and which lowered blood glucose levels when transplanted into diabetic mice. The team, headed by Peng Yi, PhD, an investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, suggests that their results point to ALDH3B2 as a gene that could potentially be targeted in human pancreatic duct cells to replenish β cell mass for diabetes therapy.

编者按：当"表观遗传学"这个医学热词跨界来到农药领域，先正达用它交出了全球第二个HDAC抑制剂类杀菌剂的成绩单。2026年4月，先正达噁二唑类杀菌剂"环氟菌噁唑"正式获得ISO通用名批准。这是继巴斯夫氟菌噁唑之后，全球第二个走向ISO命名的HDAC抑制剂类杀菌剂。HDAC——组蛋白去乙酰化酶，一个从癌症治疗领域"借"来的全新靶点，正在悄然改写杀菌剂抗性管理的格局。这个分子有什么过人之处？我们一起来看。

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has called for greater private-sector investment, technology adoption and mechanisation to transform Nigeria’s agricultural sector, as stakeholders prepare for the AGROMEQA Expo 2026, which will bring farmers, investors, technology providers and policymakers together in Abuja in October.

Ag robotics companies have historically faced a frustrating trade-off: build a machine optimized for one task or crop, o…