Enzootic Genetics & Innovation, NRGene and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will create a new technological consortium to apply the latest genomic selection technologies developed by NRGene for the ...

Genetic selection could help farmers and breeders reduce greenhouse gases from crops, particularly rice cultivation, research ...

Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection, is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics. In selective breeding, a breeder chooses two parents with ...

Twenty five years ago, the IAEA initiated a research programme on the development of in vitro mutagenesis in banana at the Plant Breeding Laboratory and since then has developed considerable and ...

Researchers propose mitigating methane production by dairy cattle through breeding. Scientists are targeting reduction of enteric methane in the breeding objectives for dairy cattle to select for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write skeptically about science, public policy, media and NGOs. As Jon Entine of the Genetic Literacy Project reports, it’s ...

Researchers are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed diversity.

Andrew Walker receives funding from the California Department of Food and Agriculture PD Board. Growing winegrapes may be the most backward form of horticulture that exists. The vast majority of the ...