Examples include dogs bred for specific work tasks or fruit bred to be sweeter. The term “artificial selection” was coined by Charles Darwin, but the practice of selective breeding predates ...

AI can be helpful in identifying a replacement when, for example, a specialized aluminum manufacturing plant goes down and the company needs to supplement that component as quickly as possible.

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 stepped into the more general patent arena perhaps because “plant breeding require[d] innovation different in kind and degree from that needed to obtain a patent ...