Using new genetic markers, fruit breeders can now tell whether grapes will be seedless and self-pollinating even years before ...

A global database of new crop varieties developed by mutation breeding has been upgraded and expanded to include data on mutant microbial bacteria and fungi strains as well as mutant plant varieties.

I appreciate your excellent and educational work. I’m just starting out in farming, and I’m learning a lot. I appreciate the topics that have already been covered in this column; it has been a great ...

Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, and Durham, North Carolina, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enza Zaden, a global leader in vegetable breeding that develops and supplies innovative vegetable seeds for ...

Each year, by November 30, every stallion owner must submit a stallion breeding report detailing all mares exposed to the stallion during that breeding season. While it may feel like just another form ...

Derek Barchenger, an Oklahoma native and head of the Global Pepper Breeding Program at the World Vegetable Center, was named the 2025 recipient of the Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and ...

O arroz (Oryza sativa L.) é cultivado em muitos países do mundo, com diferentes condições climáticas. Um grande número de estresses ambientais, tanto bióticos (fungos, bactérias, vírus, insetos) como ...

Plant breeding is a continuously evolving field. From the discovery of Mendel’s laws of heredity to the development of gene-based markers, advances on analytical tools and emerging use of big data ...

A RIPE team determined through measurement analysis of field trials that a crucial soybean photosynthesis improvement with traditional breeding methods is unlikely. Gene editing could be the key to ...

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.