Plant genetics and breeding are at the heart of sustainable agriculture, food security, and biodiversity conservation. As global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and shifting ...

Lagoda, P.J.L. 2.1 Use of Tissue Culture and Mutation Induction to Improve Banana Production for Smallholders in Sri Lanka. In: Chapter 2: Case Studies in the Crop Sector of Biotechnologies at Work ...

This postdoc uses genome sequencing to uncover genes that shaped plant domestication and can be used to guide the development ...

A group of researchers has discovered a new approach to cereal plant breeding that takes into account the internal 'calculator' of plant seeds that makes them continuously reorganize themselves ...

Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use daily, including blue jeans, bedsheets, paper, candles, and peanut butter. In the United States, cotton is a $7 billion ...

Scientists have established a system to generate clonal sex cells in tomato plants and used them to design the genomes of offspring. The fertilization of a clonal egg from one parent by a clonal sperm ...

Soybean breeder Caio Canella Vieira is building a bridge from the past to the future at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Vieira plans to use advanced genetic tools to speed up the ...

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has appointed Surinder Sandhu as Head, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and Yogita Sharma as librarian of the MS Randhawa Library, said officials.

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In early April of last year, a white ...

Induction, rapid fixation and retention of mutations in vegetatively propagated banana. Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Owen A. Huynh, Marta Brozynska, Joy Nakitandwe† and Bradley J. Till* Plant Breeding ...