Cattle breeders have used genetic selection tools to change the majority of the major breeds significantly. Producers want to increase productivity and longevity of their herd to increase ...
Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...
Researchers spotlight how selecting cattle for lower methane emissions could deliver long-term gains in efficiency and ...
Lupin research has evolved into a multidisciplinary field that spans molecular genetics, breeding techniques and metabolite engineering, thereby reinforcing its role as an important pulse crop and ...
Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.
Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...