New techniques developed at UC Davis could allow breeding of plants with one genetic parent, dramatically speeding up breeding of new crop varieties. (Getty Images) Scientists are a step closer to ...

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For thousands of years, humans have sought to improve their plants to ensure they have safe and nutritious sources of food. It started out with the simple act of selecting the strongest, most ...

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.

Researchers from Iowa State University and North Carolina State University have created a robotic system that can precisely measure the angle of leaves to help breed quality corn plants. Compared to ...

A new program at the University of Florida hopes to help solve the problem of global food security. The program hopes to do so utilizing plant breeding. I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's ...

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The induction of polyploidy in plants represents a transformative approach in modern plant breeding, aimed at overcoming the genetic limitations inherent in many crop species. Polyploidisation, which ...

How do plants achieve their remarkably regular arrangement of leaves and flowers? And why does this pattern remain so stable, even as plants grow and respond to their environment? Researchers at ...

Agriculture is facing a lot of challenges. There is a campaign to promote the development and propagation of resilient crop varieties to increase yields. But, this will require improving the plant ...

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, ...