Maize (Zea mays L.) plays an important role in global food security. During 9,000 years of maize domestication and breeding, ...

Washington State University is diving into its extensive history of cherry breeding to better understand the genetics ...

"Developing a new rapeseed variety used to take up to 10 years of field trials and breeding work. Now, with the 'Zhongxinyou ...

a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland identify a previously undetected gene variant in Northern Australia cattle breeds ...

The High Court found the government did not investigate fully the consequences of its decision to deregulate gene-edited ...

Gene editing in plants remains challenging, with the traditional non-homologous end-joining (cNHEJ) repair pathway often hindering precision. In this study, researchers advanced CRISPR-Cas-based gene ...

What does the future of breeding look like for the Irish dairy industry?

A High Court ruling has raised major questions over England’s gene-editing rules after finding ministers failed to properly ...