In a virtual press conference on May 3, Canadian Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau confirmed new plant...
Plant Breeding
Trait Stacking Opens Up World of Possibilities for Plant Breeding
Trait stacking can help with everything from nutrition to weed control in the plant breeding world. Trait stacking...
Plant Breeding’s Not Just Science, It’s a Performance
When you start thinking about your audience, plant breeding changes from a science to an art form. If you’ve worked in...
Do You Know Your Audience When Breeding?
When you hear the term “audience,” your mind probably jumps to marketing. Who am I selling a product to? Who’s the...
How to Navigate Funding Challenges in Cereals Research
If you work in the public sector, your research depends on funding from outside sources who fund all kinds of research...
Working Together on Plant Breeding
Public and private plant breeders believe there are opportunities to work together on plant breeding. While the public...
Marcus Samuel is Playing with Canola Genes
Marcus Samuel has modified canola to help make the Canadian crop weather the future. Marcus Samuel started out working...
With Over 8 Billion Mouths to Feed, It’s Time to Innovate
Plant breeders across all seed sectors are getting innovative and creative to feed the globe. Whether or not the...
The Differences Between Public and Private Plant Breeding
Plant breeding is funded one of two ways — public dollars paid for by governments or private dollars funded by...
To Feed a Growing Population, Plant Breeders Innovate
There’s been a huge discussion around the idea that the global population is growing rapidly. If you’ve been in the...
Yield10 Bioscience Working to Release Herbicide Tolerant Camelina
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is working to release winter and spring Camelina varieties that are herbicide tolerant, a...
How Can We Make Food for a Declining Population?
We all know the world population is set to hit 9 billion by 2050. Or is it? Darrell Bricker says it’s not going to...
Breeding Crops to be Less Allergenic
With more known than ever before about the genes in plants, plant breeders are now breeding crops with less allergens...
NRGene Canada Advances Clubroot Technology
The following piece is from our sister publication, Germination. Technology could be a game-changer in the fight...
Wild Relatives are Plant Breeders Insurance Policy for Food Security
Wild relatives help preserve diversity for future plant breeding needs. Crop wild relatives have evolved over millions...
Plant Breeding to Stop Allergies
Allergies and food intolerances to peanuts and wheat are extremely common these days. And while those with these...
Consumers Open Up to Gene Edited Foods
The following piece is from our sister publication, Seed World. At the American Seed Trade Association’s Vegetable and...
Young Plant Scientists are Creating the Crops of the Future
The three recipients of this year’s Canadian Plant Breeding Innovation (CPBI) Scholarship have one big thing in common...
The Importance of Wild Relatives in Plant Breeding
It's no secret that food security is a rising issue across the globe. As experts search for ways to combat the...
What’s Your Final Goal in Breeding? It’s Not Always Obvious
Though plant breeders keep breeding targets in mind, sometimes surprises come down the pipeline. When you think about...