Heritable Agriculture Inc., a leader in AI-driven crop improvement spun out of Google X, announced today that it has received a $4.98M grant from the Gates Foundation. The funding will support the ...

(CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been inextricably linked to the health of the planet. Now the climate crisis is disrupting farming across the ...

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...

The loss of three Ag Canada research and development centres, four satellite research farms and 665 jobs at the department is ...

Lifeasible, a leading biotechnology company focused on agricultural breeding, has recently upgraded its space breeding service, offering researchers and agricultural enterprises a more powerful ...

Beijing recently approved a tranche of new biotech crop varieties and announced plans to accelerate breeding to boost yields – the latest chapter in a long-running drive for greater self-sufficiency.

A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant populations, according to a new study. The results have the ...