Chinese scientists have successfully developed the world’s first AI-powered breeding robot named GEAIR (Genome Editing combined with AI-based Robotics). Capable of autonomous cruising and ...

Developing crops that are disease resistant or produce a desired trait such as sweetness, flavor or color has long been a goal of people who breed plants. But the introduction of laboratory techniques ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 globe. Yet ...

I love to try new improved plant varieties. Could you share with us how new varieties are developed? The processes for developing new plant varieties have changed dramatically over hundreds of years.

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...