Niab will lead a wheat pre-breeding project to move promising traits into European winter wheat for breeder trials.

In 1931, a failed farm left more than 4,000 sheep on Campbell Island. Left unshorn, the flock rebounded, bred earlier, and ...

Rainbow Crops CEO Giacomo Bastianelli on multiplex gene editing, the Gates Foundation collaboration, and licensing Trait Foundry to seed companies.

Cambridge-based crop science pioneer NIAB is steering an international programme designed to revolutionise wheat breeding.

A genomic analysis of 5,859 commercial pigs reveals that runs of homozygosity, a DNA-based measure of inbreeding, are ...

Plant breeders have long faced a stubborn dilemma: improving one trait in a crop often comes at the expense of another. Boosting kernel size might shrink the cob; selecting for taller plants might ...

Plant breeding IP will shape how Europe protects innovation, supports access and keeps seed breeding competitive for the ...

In the harsh Agter-Pakhuis area outside Clanwilliam, performance has to be earned. Martin de Klerk uses hard data, rigorous ...

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A two-decade genomic analysis of a commercial sugar beet breeding program has mapped, for the first time in this level of ...

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