If you've ever seen a perfectly seedless watermelon or seed-free lemon and wondered if the fruit is genetically modified, here's everything you need to know.

Advanced genomics, digital phenotyping, and predictive breeding models are helping researchers evaluate tens of thousands of ...

Plant breeders in all career stages, from job-seeking graduate students to established industry professionals, recently gathered at the National Association for Plant Breeding conference on the Texas ...

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern ...

The world’s plants remove roughly 64 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the air every year. Plants store it in leaves, shoots, ...

The legislation establishes a modern, science-based regulatory framework for plants developed through NGTs, paving the way ...

Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are resilient or resistant to extreme weather and other ...

Departamento Genetica e Morfologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. Cassava is principal food for more than one and half billion poor people in humid tropics of Africa, Asia and South ...

One of the limiting factors in breeding and genetic research is the time required to develop pure lines. This is due, on the one hand, to the prolonged vegetative period of a single generation and, on ...

Whenever I hear about genome editing, I think about the copy editors that make the articles you read in Farm Press better. Copy editors correct grammar, take out unnecessary words and phrases, and ...

In the days before the internet, plant breeders relied on ingenuity, observation, and meticulous record-keeping to develop new varieties of crops. These methods laid the groundwork for modern ...

As a peanut breeder, Jeff Dunne is concerned that the flavor of roasted peanuts has declined over the past 20 years. He said steps must be taken to improve the flavor profile of the Virginia-type ...