Developing crops that are disease resistant or produce a desired trait such as sweetness, flavor or color has long been a goal of people who breed plants. But the introduction of laboratory techniques ...

GEAIR, an intelligent breeding robot, performs cross-pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse in Beijing on Dec 29, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinese scientists have recently developed the world's first ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

I love to try new improved plant varieties. Could you share with us how new varieties are developed? The processes for developing new plant varieties have changed dramatically over hundreds of years.

Between 1979 and 1984 the following aspects of the pollination of «Bianco di Spagna», the most widespread cultivar in Italy, of Phaseolus coccineus L. were studied: A) the composition and behaviour of ...

A drone that can pollinate flowers may one day work side by side with bees to improve crop yields. About three-quarters of global crop species, from apples to almonds, rely on pollination by bees and ...