Corn is one of the world's most important crops, critical for food, feed, and industrial applications. In 2023, corn ...

Securing plant production is a global task. Using a combination of new molecular and statistical methods, a research team was able to show that material from gene banks can be used to improve traits ...

This comprehensive book covers the underlying scientific principles, state of the art technologies and methodologies of plant mutagenesis. It covers historical development and commonly used ...

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 ...

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 ...

NIKIÈMA, M.P., OUÉDRAOGO, N., TRAORÉ, H., SAWADOGO, M., JANKULOSKI, L., GHANIM, A.M.A., YONLI, D. (2020). Sorghum Mutation Breeding for Tolerance to Water Deficit ...

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent expert opinion article published in BioTechniques entitled ‘Genetic molecular markers to accelerate genetic gains in crops’, as we invite author, Rajeev ...

Cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.) is an old crop thought to have been domesticated over 3,000 years ago, while growing as a weed in wheat and barley fields. Oat has a low carbon footprint, substantial ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method that enables plant cells to regenerate into complete plants without the need ...