Modern plant breeders have access to a wealth of tools that make their work easier. Long gone are the days of mashing plants together and hoping for the best. Plant breeders now have access to numerous tools which make their breeding work more precise and effective....
Like any job, it’s good to have goals in plant breeding. Typically, these goals take the form of breeding targets — characteristics and traits that a breeder hopes to achieve in a variety. And, while a target could take multiple crosses or steps to achieve, they...
As the global population grows, high-yielding harvests and healthy crops are essential to feed mouths across the world. An answer to this pressing call came a little over 200 years ago in the form of the ‘Father of Genetics’ — also known as Gregor Mendel. Born in...
Plant breeding has come a long way and there’s a wealth of techniques that breeders use to make new crop varieties. Plant breeders are working with everything from conventional plant breeding to newer techniques such as gene editing. On the Jan. 18 episode of Seed...
As the global population grows, high-yielding harvests and healthy crops are essential to feed mouths across the world. Developing resilient plants with enhanced tolerance through plant breeding is a major piece to help solve this puzzle — but where exactly did plant...
Change is inevitable in our world. Think about it: Just about 40 years ago, technology like the Internet was completely new — you couldn’t find it in every household. Today, 5.07 billion people around the world use the internet — that’s 63.5 per cent of the world’s...
