Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Some years ago, NASA bred wheat in space with the goal of providing ...

Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

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.

AI-driven plant breeding accelerates trait identification for climate adaptation and food security, but risks inequality and environmental harm. Democratic control of these technologies are vital for ...

The use of various mutagens to generate genetic variation in crop plants has a history almost as long as that of conventional breeding. Induction of variability by irradiation of barley seeds with ...

Plant Breeding and CRISPR Plants Market by Type (Conventional Breeding and Biotechnological Method), Trait (Herbicide Tolerance, Disease Resistance, Yield & Grain Size Improvement, Temperature ...

Plant breeding is the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired genotypes and phenotypes for specific purposes. This manipulation involves either controlled pollination, ...

Every plant now under cultivation was once wild. Plant evolution under domestication has led to increased productivity, but, at the same time, domestication has narrowed the genetic basis of crop ...