In the not-so-distant past, if you gardened, you also saved seeds. You don’t have to now, but you still might want to. Saving seeds is like the black belt for gardeners. If you want to take your ...

Seed orchards are specialised plantations established to produce genetically improved seed by combining elite genotypes under managed pollination. By assembling select families or clones, these ...

Securing plant production is a global task. Using a combination of new molecular and statistical methods, a research team was able to show that material from gene banks can be used to improve traits ...

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. The speed breeding platform developed by ...

Maize (Zea mays L.) plays an important role in global food security. During 9,000 years of maize domestication and breeding, ...

Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and the cookies for dessert. Not one would be possible with the humblest of ingredients: the seed. Seeds such ...

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Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF Venture Capital, Roquette, Trendlines Group and Fortissimo Capital. The company focuses on non-GMO seed ...

Hyderabad:The foundation stone was laid on Wednesday for a speed breeding facility worth Rs 12 crore at Indian Institute of Rice Research (ICAR-IIRR) where a modern seed godown built at a cost of Rs 1 ...

A new technology, speed breeding, allows plants to be grown more rapidly. The technology produced wheat, from seed-to-seed in 8 weeks. Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest ...