Unlike conventional farming methods, participatory plant breeding allows farmers to make their own decisions on which seeds to plant and thereby become part of the evolutionary process. The five ...

NESS ZIONA, Israel, and HAUT-MAUCO, France, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NRGene (TASE: NRGN), a leading international genomics AI company, and Mas Seeds, an international seed company with activities ...

At first glance, Chris Smith’s modest farm plot outside Asheville, North Carolina, has nothing in common with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle collider located on the border of ...

In the not-so-distant past, if you gardened, you also saved seeds. You don’t have to now, but you still might want to. Saving seeds is like the black belt for gardeners. If you want to take your ...

The most natural example of how breeders make seeds replicate a strain requires both a female and male plant of the exact same genotype. In this scenario, breeders choose both a female and a male ...

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 ...

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. The speed breeding platform developed by ...

Rearranging veggie genes is big business, and we're not even talking about biotechnology. Private companies and university researchers spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year breeding better ...

Urban farmers in New York City face many obstacles—from high winds, to lack of space, extreme temperatures, and more. But now, there’s a line of seeds made just for them. Zach Pickens of Rooftop Ready ...

Australian growers face a simple problem. Finding reliable cannabis seeds locally means avoiding customs, long wait times, and questionable genetics. The top 3 seed banks in Australia solve all three ...