Nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture contribute significantly to global warming. A new breeding concept, specifically for ...

Nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture contribute significantly to global warming. A new breeding concept, specifically for wheat, could help reduce nitrogen fertilization. This holobiont principle ...

On March 17, at the seedling cultivation base of Xinjiang Shuanghe Agricultural Development Co, ... integrating breeding, seedling cultivation, transplantation, planting, processing, ...

PLANT breeding efforts remain a powerful solution to many cross-sectoral concerns and create a broader impact on food ...

A yam seedling harvester plows rows for yam seedlings at Tianrun Seed and Breeding Integrated High-efficiency Industrial Park in Juancheng, Shandong province, on Feb 19. [Photo provided to ...

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A decade might sound a long time, but in the plant breeding world it’s not that far off. Plant breeders are already working ...

Scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 19 in Science Advances, ...

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 ...

Plant Breeding The first issue of Heredity in July 1947 featured a paper by Otto Frankel on “The theory of plant breeding for yield”. Since then there have been over 600 papers which I ...

Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) originated in the early 1980s as part of a movement promoting the concept of participatory research, in response to criticisms of the failure of ...