How does plant breeding support organic farming? Students are developing new crops that help organic farmers grow healthy, ...

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.

A team of scientists led by a horticulture professor who leads a pome fruit (apples and pears) breeding program, found that public plant breeding programs are seeing decreases in funding and personnel ...

The global food price crisis of 2008 highlighted the necessity for innovation in agriculture to address food insecurity in the context of a changing climate and a growing population. The world ...

Applied since the 1930s to accelerate the process of developing and selecting new valuable agronomic traits, mutation breeding uses a plant’s own genetic make-up, mimicking the natural process of ...