For centuries, farmers have bred plants for traits such as taste, resilience and yield. The development of Next-Generation Sequencing, a visual technology, utilizing fluorescence imaging to explore ...

An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has succeeded in generating haploids in the model plant ...

Sugarcane, a crucial worldwide food and bioenergy crop, accounts for approximately 80% of the world's sugar production, with its largest cultivation in Brazil and India. As the 5th largest crop by ...

Wheat researchers are pioneering a new technique that promises to improve gene discovery for the globally important crop. Wheat researchers at the John Innes Centre are pioneering a new technique that ...

Domestic pigs reproduce through a breeding process that is closely managed on farms around the world. During mating, a male pig, known as a boar, mounts the female, called a sow, in a behavior driven ...