Bhalla-Sarin, N., Prasad, U.S., Kantharajah, A.S. and S.M. Jain, 2003. Micropropagation of litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.). In: Micropropagation of woody trees and ...

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 ...

A new study has identified Aegilops cylindrica, a wild grass closely related to wheat, as a powerful genetic reservoir for ...

After decades of recording detailed information about different varieties of crops, their traits and the DNA sequences they ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

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 ...

Developing high-yielding, nutritious and climate-resilient crops is vital to safeguard the future of global food production.

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the cultivated strawberry, providing a genetic roadmap to select desired traits. (UC Davis) Consumers want strawberries to be red, sweet ...

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 ...

NIKIÈMA, M.P., OUÉDRAOGO, N., TRAORÉ, H., SAWADOGO, M., JANKULOSKI, L., GHANIM, A.M.A., YONLI, D. (2020). Sorghum Mutation Breeding for Tolerance to Water Deficit ...