Have you ever thought about what happens if you cross a potato with a watermelon? Or a tomato and a turnip? These are the bizarre and often disturbing hybrid crops you can make with certain seeds in ...

Two researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a VinFuture Prize in recognition of their work ...

CHICAGO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are gaining access to a new type of wheat developed by agrichemical giant Syngenta without genetic engineering, as the world's biggest seedmakers seek to boost ...

SRINAGAR: Dr Imtiyaz Khanday, a native of Pattan in Kashmir and currently an Assistant Professor at the University of ...

Crop hybrid technologies have contributed to the significant yield improvement worldwide in the past decades. However, designing and maintaining a hybrid production line has always been complex and ...

Postdoc Imtiyaz Khanday and Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan with cloned rice plants in a UC Davis greenhouse, December 2018. Khanday, Sundaresan and colleagues have solved the problem of propagating ...

CHICAGO, Dec 21 (Reuters) — U.S. farmers are gaining access to a new type of wheat developed by agrichemical giant Syngenta without genetic engineering, as the world's biggest seedmakers seek to boost ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New West Genetics (NWG) is pleased to announce seed production for their hybrid trait, AMPLIFY, has begun this 2023 season. NWG's AMPLIFY trait ...

SIBY, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last year, when drought hit in the middle of the growing season in his region of southern Mali, Baba Berthé lost his entire two-hectare maize crop. "I ...