The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

Modern crop breeding is entering a new era of genome design, led by genome editing technologies as mainstream tools for targeted genome modification. In a review published in Nature Reviews Genetics, ...

Climate change, population growth, and mounting pressures from plant diseases are helping drive a global food crisis. Reliable crop production is becoming increasingly challenging, exposing the limits ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The IAEA is launching a new Coordinated Research Project ...

Reference genome sequences from many important crops and several model plant species are enabling a number of new applications of crop comparative genomics. Compared with previous methods, comparative ...

Modern horticultural science operates at the intersection of plant metabolism, stress physiology, and quality trait development. As global environmental ...

While you’re finding out from the Idaho Crop Improvement Association if the seed you’re about to plant is up to par, you just might hear something about garbanzo beans moving south or even get a read ...

Plant breeding aims at the genetic enhancement of crops through the application of principles of Mendelian Genetics and modern tools and techniques of cell and molecular biology. Many breeding ...

The study of plant roots, often referred to as the 'hidden half' of plants, is a critical area of research due to their ...