The wealth of information in these reports should accelerate breeding projects aimed at generating superior varieties of corn and other crops. Over 1 billion people eat maize or meat from maize ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial ...

One of the more significant challenges is increasing the scale of hybrid seed production, a constraint for both research and ...

BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing technique to reduce corn plant height, enabling the creation of compact, high-density varieties resistant to lodging, ...

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

Bilinear hybrid rice, hybrid corn breeding, and multi-crop planting technologies featuring intensive cultivation have reached or approached the world’s advanced level. In addition, an important ...

Days later, Reuters reported that the agriculture ministry would accelerate breeding for new soybean and corn varieties and prioritize improving yields in five key crops: corn, rice, wheat ...

TO boost the soybean and corn industry in Isabela province, the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) and the DA Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) have forged a partnership ...