A new study suggests that decades of reported gains in crop yields from plant breeding may be significantly overstated, ...

Moringa (Moringa oleifera), a fast-growing tree with edible leaves, shoots and seeds, is among the 101 African crops targeted by the African Orphan Crops Consortium. New breeding methods such as ...

ICRISAT has partnered with the ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding for Agricultural Futures to integrate advanced genomic prediction tools into crop improvement programmes, aiming to accelerate ...

It's not whether public crop breeding has value. It certainlly does. Rather, is the current model built to thrive under modern constraints?

(CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been inextricably linked to the health of the planet. Now the climate crisis is disrupting farming across the ...

At the University of Minnesota, soybean breeders are looking far beyond the next harvest; they’re developing varieties that can withstand pests, push yields higher and meet new demands from renewable ...

A research team has elucidated the role of polyploidy in the evolution and breeding of vegetable crops, leveraging advanced sequencing technologies to dissect the genetic and epigenetic nuances of ...

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...