The Plant and Animal Genomics conference recently held in San Diego showcased the ways that rapidly advancing technologies can be used in the crop and livestock sectors ...

Cutting-edge editing techniques are accelerating efforts to create high-yield, resilient varieties of major agricultural products.

Researchers say study highlights the importance of rice breeding and cultivation measures in the mitigation of global warming.

and some crop breeding techniques take advantage of this. Conventionally, genetic engineering has relied on natural or artificial mutations. In recent years, genome editing technology has been ...

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...

In a shift away from GMOS, aka genetically modified organisms, important research is continuing in gene editing, sometimes ...

Examples of pan-genome studies conducted in major crops and related species ... as well as advanced plant breeding, gene editing, mutagenomics and computational modeling techniques in a systems ...

Polyploidy, involving the presence of three or more complete chromosome sets in an organism, is very common in crop plants ... functional characterization and breeding application at later stages.