Developing crops that are disease resistant or produce a desired trait such as sweetness, flavor or color has long been a goal of people who breed plants. But the introduction of laboratory techniques ...

Chinese scientists have successfully developed the world’s first AI-powered breeding robot named GEAIR (Genome Editing combined with AI-based Robotics). Capable of autonomous cruising and ...

GEAIR, an intelligent breeding robot, performs cross-pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse in Beijing on Dec 29, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinese scientists have recently developed the world's first ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

(CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been inextricably linked to the health of the planet. Now the climate crisis is disrupting farming across the ...

Between 1979 and 1984 the following aspects of the pollination of «Bianco di Spagna», the most widespread cultivar in Italy, of Phaseolus coccineus L. were studied: A) the composition and behaviour of ...