According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” Therefore, greenhouse ...

In the days before the internet, plant breeders relied on ingenuity, observation, and meticulous record-keeping to develop new varieties of crops. These methods laid the groundwork for modern ...

Plant breeding is the science of improving plants for human use, focusing on enhancing desirable traits such as yield, disease resistance, and nutritional value. The process involves selecting parent ...

Sugarcane, a crucial worldwide food and bioenergy crop, accounts for approximately 80% of the world's sugar production, with its largest cultivation in Brazil and India. As the 5th largest crop by ...

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, ...

Drought, heat, lost crops, billions demanded by farmers: the hot summer of 2018 was yet another warning sign that climate change is posing increasing challenges to agriculture. According to estimates ...

When it comes to food, many people yearn for nature in its most pristine state. The thinking is that natural products are somehow better and healthier. Organic food is marketed through an idealised ...

Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are often sold to farmers and the public on the grounds that they are the wave of the future, taking over where conventional plant breeding left off by improving ...