These selective breeding programs have also substantially improved other traits, leading to faster growth and meatier oysters. The sequencing of the oyster genome in 2012 unlocked a flood tide of new ...

After all, cattle breeding has been going on for hundreds of years, yet continues to create cows that produce more milk. Artificial selection applied to chickens is still raising plumper birds.

Honeybees, especially crucial for their pollination services, are vital to agriculture and the environment, but bee breeding was largely a matter of chance until Professor Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., ...

Selective breeding of dogs was pioneered by the British in the Victorian era, when many earnestly believed in eugenics as a means of “purifying” and improving both man and animal.

Fruit and vegetables: we need it, we eat it, we often love it. It's nature's gift to humanity, with the best flavors around the world coming from mother nature herself. However, did you know that ...