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  • Disciplined genetic selection adds value from pasture to plate
  • Chinese research team may have cracked secret to crossbreeding Asian and African rice
  • The genetics behind better tree seed 

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beefmagazine.com /5 days ago

Disciplined genetic selection adds value from pasture to plate

Simplot Livestock’s integrated breeding program shows how commercial producers can use focused goals, crossbreeding and performance feedback to improve profitability.

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scmp.com /1 month ago

Chinese research team may have cracked secret to crossbreeding Asian and African rice

Chinese scientists have identified a genetic barrier that makes it hard to crossbreed African and Asian rice varieties – a discovery that could lay the foundations for creating hig...

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forestsnews.org /2 weeks ago

The genetics behind better tree seed 

In Kenya and Rwanda, breeding seed orchards and mother blocks are helping improve access to quality tree seed and planting material. Through the Quality Tree Seed for Africa projec...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

New Microhaplotype Databases and Tools Reveal Crop Genetic Diversity

Tiny DNA Signatures Give Crop Breeders a Sharper View of Hidden Genetic Diversity Plant breeders have gained a new way to see genetic variation that standard DNA markers can miss....

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Quantifying crop science: a review of phenotyping, mechanics, and modeling

Crop science is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation, and a new review published in Plant Molecular Biology argues that the change amounts to the birth of an entirely new...

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bioengineer.org /4 weeks ago

Mild Pepper Virus Turned Into a Powerful Gene Tool for Crop Scientists

Pepper is one of the most economically important vegetable crops in the world, yet scientists trying to understand which of its genes do what have long been hampered by a stubborn...

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agrilifetoday.tamu.edu /1 month ago

New gene-editing tool speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops

‘CRISPR-Combo’ system cuts months off growing plants The post New gene-editing tool speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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bioengineer.org /1 week ago

Engineered Rhizobium Strain Opens Transient Gene Expression to Diverse Crops

An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional genomics to non-model...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Cashew Study Identifies Stable Varieties for Climate-Resilient Coastal Farming

Cashew breeders in India have identified a small group of varieties that produced consistently under changing growing conditions, offering a potential route toward more reliable nu...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Early Gibberellin Surge Under High-Density Planting Weakens Rapeseed Stems, Study Finds

Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more...

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omanobserver.om /1 month ago

Regional workshop on molecular breeding, crop improvement held

MUSCAT: A regional workshop on ‘Molecular Breeding and Marker-Assisted Selection’ began in Muscat today and will continue until September 24, focusing on strengthening scientific a...

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scmp.com /2 weeks ago

China unveils AI-powered robot designed to help farmers breed better strains of wheat

China has unveiled a smart robot prototype designed to assist with wheat breeding in the latest step in its ongoing drive to advance agricultural technology and bolster food securi...

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bioengineer.org /2 weeks ago

Genomic Selection Models Predict Wheat Baking Quality Years Earlier, New Study Shows

A twelve-year study of hard red spring wheat shows that both conventional two-step and single-step reaction norm genomic selection models can predict milling, dough, and baking qua...

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journals.plos.org /1 week ago

PrimeStack editors enable efficient and site-specific integration of large multigene cargos in plants

by Edith Sánchez, Khalid Sedeek, Haroon Butt, Magdy Mahfouz Precise, site-specific integration of large DNA sequences into plant genomes is a long-standing goal of crop biotechnol...

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botany.one /1 month ago

Plant-Microbe Speed Dating Paves The Way For Sustainable Agriculture

Researchers have teamed up with Belgian citizens to conduct a mass match-making experiment between cold-tolerant soybeans and rhizobia.

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bioengineer.org /2 weeks ago

Low-Coverage Genome Sequencing Uncovers Hidden Clonal Seed Formation in Apple Relatives

A low-coverage whole-genome sequencing screen of USDA apple germplasm identified 17 previously unknown apomictic genotypes, offering a cheaper, faster method for detecting clonal s...

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awaytogarden.com /1 month ago

knowing, and saving, the seed, with bill braun of freed seed federation

I LOOK AROUND the garden and I see it happening everywhere, on so many different plants: seed is forming. Seed is the start of most everything we grow, yet most of the seed we gard...

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bioengineer.org /1 week ago

Wheat’s Yield-Stability Trade-Off Exposed by Multi-Environment Analysis

A multi-season Iranian field trial combining GGE biplots, BLUP-based stability indices and multi-trait selection reveals a sharp yield-stability trade-off in bread wheat and identi...

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finegardening.com /1 month ago

Looking to the Future of Hydrangeas

Learn how breeders are pushing hydrangea hybrids in bold new directions

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