Saint Mary of the Woods has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Hulman & Company Foundation to further develop its Mari ...

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

Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.

Accurately predicting complex agronomic traits remains a major bottleneck in crop breeding. This study demonstrates how ...

Plant breeding is the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired genotypes and phenotypes for specific purposes. This manipulation involves either controlled pollination, ...

When you take a bite of steak or munch on a turkey drumstick, you probably don't think about the animal it came from. We've been eating animals for millennia, but generations of breeding have given ...

The intensification of livestock production systems is a prerequisite to meet the growing demand for animal products. Genetic selection, assisted reproductive technologies and optimized reproduction ...

Scientists say dry and mild conditions in spring 2025 offered a rare boost for threatened wild birds - Anadolu Ajansı ...