New techniques developed at UC Davis could allow breeding of plants with one genetic parent, dramatically speeding up breeding of new crop varieties. (Getty Images) Scientists are a step closer to ...

Over the past decade, the Peach State has risen as one of the top producers of blueberries in the U.S. Georgia now produces ...

WASHINGTON(7News) — The greenhouse is quieter than you’d expect. No dramatic bursts of color, no cinematic moment—just rows of plants doing their job. Leaves angled toward the light, soil evenly damp, ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

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 ...

Most of the new plants we see in nurseries didn't come about by chance. Plant breeding is a highly specialised and scientific process. And at plant breeding nurseries like this, there's a lot of work ...

Commercial crops have an extremely narrow genetic base, which makes them vulnerable to environmental threats. The induced mutation technique is becoming increasingly important to bring about heritable ...

For centuries, farmers have bred plants for traits such as taste, resilience and yield. The development of Next-Generation Sequencing, a visual technology, utilizing fluorescence imaging to explore ...

Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are often sold to farmers and the public on the grounds that they are the wave of the future, taking over where conventional plant breeding left off by improving ...

Genomic prediction is the inference of phenotypic data in genotyped individuals on the basis of a model developed in a ‘training set’ of individuals with both phenotypes and genotypes. Specifically, ...