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Simplot Livestock’s integrated breeding program shows how commercial producers can use focused goals, crossbreeding and performance feedback to improve profitability.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
‘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.
An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional genomics to non-model...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Researchers have teamed up with Belgian citizens to conduct a mass match-making experiment between cold-tolerant soybeans and rhizobia.
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...
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...
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...
Learn how breeders are pushing hydrangea hybrids in bold new directions
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