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 ...

(CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been inextricably linked to the health of the planet. Now the climate crisis is disrupting farming across the ...

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For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

Andrew Leakey and his colleagues developed an AI tool that uses minimal training to teach itself to distinguish the flowers of thousands of varieties of Miscanthus, a plant used in biofuels production ...

A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant populations, according to a new study. The results have the ...

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