Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

A recently completed five-year IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) (D25005) has helped experts from 12 countries to identify novel sources of resistance to the devastating parasitic weed Striga in ...

Innovative plant breeding programmes using safe and proven nuclear techniques are vital for enhancing food security and sustainable agriculture. For nearly 60 years, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of ...

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

Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads to ...

Strawberries are notoriously soft and highly perishable, posing challenges to global production. Recent research has identified a genetic breakthrough that could help cultivate firmer strawberries ...