With global population growth and climate change posing escalating threats to crop production, the current food system is unlikely to be sufficient to meet future demand. Although more than 12,000 ...

A recent study has reported a novel breeding strategy to rapidly create climate-smart crops that show higher yield under normal conditions and greatly rescue yield losses under heat stress both in ...

Today’s dairy producers are making every pregnancy count, using sexed semen, genomics and beef-on-dairy strategies to turn ...

Advances in high-throughput sequencing, comparative genomics and predictive analytics have revolutionised wheat breeding by enabling direct manipulation of the crop’s complex genome. Modern strategies ...