Since 2013, pearl millet, or Mahangu as it is locally known, has been grown by subsistence farmers in many parts of northern Namibia where yields are extremely low because of unreliable and poor ...

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Mutation is one of the cornerstones of evolutionary biology. When an organism’s DNA mutates thanks to damage or copying error, that organism passes the mutation on to its offspring. Those offspring ...

For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we've bred and cherry-picked tomatoes with our preferred traits. Today, ...

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Lifeasible, a leading biotechnology company focused on agricultural breeding, has recently upgraded its space breeding service, offering researchers and agricultural enterprises a more powerful ...

Mechanical harvesting is replacing labor-intensive hand-plucking to meet global tea production needs. However, many traditional tea cultivars have soft, droopy leaves that break easily during machine ...