When you start thinking about your audience, plant breeding changes from a science to an art form. If you’ve worked in...
Seed Speaks
Stacking Traits to Create the Varieties of the Future
Stacking traits in plant breeding isn’t anything new, it has been done for years. However, as herbicide resistance...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How Young Plant Scientists are Creating Crops of the Future
Bolstering nitrogen fixation in pea. Understanding how to develop extra-early soybean varieties to enable cultivation...
The Plant Breeding Toolbox of the Future
Modern plant breeders have access to a wealth of tools that make their work easier. Long gone are the days of mashing...
Breeding Targets Aren’t Just Optimistic Goals
Like any job, it’s good to have goals in plant breeding. Typically, these goals take the form of breeding targets —...
How Mendel’s Discoveries Paved the Way for Modern Plant Breeding
As the global population grows, high-yielding harvests and healthy crops are essential to feed mouths across the...
Behind the Scenes of the Future of Plant Breeding
Plant breeding has come a long way and there’s a wealth of techniques that breeders use to make new crop varieties....