Meiogenix, a biotechnology company harnessing targeted recombination for precision plant breeding, has relocated its U.S.

The global demand for nutritionally enhanced foods has increased, fueling advances in both crop breeding and food technology. The integration of ...

Artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how crops are bred, and the biggest gains may come not in corn or wheat but in ...

Tools such as CRISPR can edit genes with precision, but the process of determining which genes to target is costly and slow, ...

Modern crop breeding is entering a new era of genome design, led by genome editing technologies as mainstream tools for targeted genome modification. In a review published in Nature Reviews Genetics, ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

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 ...

Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant and keep it help firmly in the ground. But not all roots are the same. Roots play a vital role in crop plants.

The newly opened Future Seeds genebank is part of a network of research resources that, it is hoped, will help crop scientists future-proof the food system against climate change and other shocks.

Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research led by plant biologists at UC Davis shows the underlying mechanism behind eliminating half the genome and ...

With global population growth and climate change posing escalating threats to crop production, the current food system is ...