PLANTS GROWN in orbit, and thereby deprived of the comforting directional pull of Earth’s gravity, typically struggle to distinguish up from down. This makes it harder for them to carry water and ...

Clemence Manyukwe is a freelance journalist in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Since November 2020, Matova has worked for the private company Mukushi Seeds in Harare. He is currently a research and ...

THE following conclusions may be drawn from the section of plant breeding in the light of genetics: first, that genetics and cytology can afford valuable assistance to the plant breeder, and secondly, ...

When his children were small, Irwin Goldman wanted to give them a beet to snack on — a beet so pretty and swirled with colors, so juicy and delicious, that they’d crunch on it raw. So Goldman, a ...

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 ...

Imagine you are a rice breeder and one day within a large field you discover a plant that has just the characteristics you have been looking for. You happily take your special plant to the laboratory ...

This time of year, Carl Whitcomb most likely can be found outside doing his work. Find the Stillwater plant breeder checking on cuttings he will bring to Tulsa next week, watching and evaluating plant ...

Jim Myers, a professor of vegetable breeding and genetics at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University, has a depth of knowledge on plant breeding. Want to know about ...

Korea Seed Industry Act (KSIA) and its Implementing Regulation, effective as of June 19 2020, a person who intends to sell propagating materials of certain types of foreign plant varieties should ...

FARGO — Joel Thorsrud was planning to make a gift to North Dakota State University's ag department. When he was given a list of the college's biggest ag needs, seeing a soybean plant breeder at the ...