For more than 60 years, the IAEA has curated the Mutant Variety Database, which serves as the world’s primary repository of officially released crop varieties developed through mutation breeding.

Moringa (Moringa oleifera), a fast-growing tree with edible leaves, shoots and seeds, is among the 101 African crops targeted by the African Orphan Crops Consortium. New breeding methods such as ...

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent expert opinion article published in BioTechniques entitled ‘Genetic molecular markers to accelerate genetic gains in crops’, as we invite author, Rajeev ...

Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses -- an advance that will ...

As genomics increasingly shapes modern agriculture, Digital Sequence Information (DSI), the digital data derived from a plant’s DNA, has become a powerful tool for improving how crop genetic resources ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Alex Lipka (left) and Colorado State University's Geoffrey Morris (right) will test the omnigenic model for its utility in crop breeding, thanks to new ...

Historically, farmers and ranchers have looked to USDA and their universities to develop the “next big thing” in plant and animal breeding. They still do, even though the private sector has emerged as ...

Artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how crops are bred, and the biggest gains may come not in corn or wheat but in the neglected staples that feed millions on the margins. By pairing ...

(Editor’s note: Change can be difficult, especially when it comes to adopting new ways of farming and producing food. But there are big innovations underway in labs and universities that analysts ...

They say speed kills, but when it comes to growing enough food for our future, speed could spell the difference between feast and famine. Luckily, there’s a group of scientists with their proverbial ...