Better crops or a cop out? The new EU agreement on NGTs could open the pathway to a more secure food supply, but critics say health risks remain ...

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Plant breeding is critical to the advancement of horticultural, especially in the Solanaceae family (including tomato, pepper, and eggplant), which relies on selecting high-performance lines for ...

As global food needs increase, so does the need for crops that can be efficiently and safely produced. Breakthrough technologies including key information on the genetics or “genomes” of crops aid ...

Focused on the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower, KWS is one of the world’s leading plant-breeding companies. It has over 5,000 employees ...

In a recent opinion piece, a group of international researchers says that by barring specific genetic engineering techniques, the European Union is missing a critical opportunity to advance organic ...

In crop-breeding, plant phenotyping is the detailed study of a plant’s characteristic ‘visible’ or phenotypic features. It includes counting the number of plants generated by a crossing experiment and ...

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