With global population growth and climate change posing escalating threats to crop production, the current food system is ...

Modern crop breeding is entering a new era of genome design, led by genome editing technologies as mainstream tools for targeted genome modification. In a review published in Nature Reviews Genetics, ...

A research team shows that phenomic prediction, which integrates full multispectral and thermal information rather than ...

Meiogenix, a biotechnology company harnessing targeted recombination for precision plant breeding, has relocated its U.S. headquarters to Research Triangle Park from Ithaca, New York. “Plant breeders ...

Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant and keep it help firmly in the ground. But not all roots are the same. Roots play a vital role in crop plants.

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...

Smart breeding took center stage at the 2025 Seed Congress and Nanfan Agricultural Silicon Valley Forum, which was held from Thursday to Sunday in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province, as Chinese ...

Lifeasible, a leading biotechnology company focused on agricultural breeding, has recently upgraded its space breeding service, offering researchers and agricultural enterprises a more powerful ...

The newly opened Future Seeds genebank is part of a network of research resources that, it is hoped, will help crop scientists future-proof the food system against climate change and other shocks.

Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research led by plant biologists at UC Davis shows the underlying mechanism behind eliminating half the genome and ...