AI-driven plant breeding accelerates trait identification for climate adaptation and food security, but risks inequality and environmental harm. Democratic control of these technologies are vital for ...

A 21-day national-level training programme on “Harnessing Modern Plant Breeding Tools for Developing Climate-Resilient and ...

Cuts to Agriculture and AgriFood Canada will undermine Canadian agricultural productivity, says National Farmers’ Union ...

Innovative plant breeding programmes using safe and proven nuclear techniques are vital for enhancing food security and sustainable agriculture. For nearly 60 years, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of ...

Scientists have established a system to generate clonal sex cells in tomato plants and used them to design the genomes of offspring. The fertilization of a clonal egg from one parent by a clonal sperm ...

The ideal crop plant is tasty and high-yielding while also being resistant to diseases and pests. But if the relevant genes are far apart on a chromosome, some of these positive traits can be lost ...

The induction of polyploidy in plants represents a transformative approach in modern plant breeding, aimed at overcoming the genetic limitations inherent in many crop species. Polyploidisation, which ...

Conventional plant regeneration approaches by cell culture require the external application of plant growth regulators, including hormones. However, optimizing culture conditions can be laborious. Now ...

AMHERST, Mass. — One of the great mysteries in plant biology is how, given the clouds of pollen released by dozens of plants species all at the same time, an individual plant can recognize which ...

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has appointed Surinder Sandhu as Head, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and Yogita Sharma as librarian of the MS Randhawa Library, said officials.