Andrea Lasar and Oliver Ladendorf of Maiwald Patentanwaltsgesellschaft outline the EPO’s decision on the patentability of plant breeding methods in the so-called broccoli case In December 2010 the ...

In crop-breeding, plant phenotyping is the detailed study of a plant’s characteristic ‘visible’ or phenotypic features. It includes counting the number of plants generated by a crossing experiment and ...

In a recent opinion piece, a group of international researchers says that by barring specific genetic engineering techniques, the European Union is missing a critical opportunity to advance organic ...

Plant breeding is critical to the advancement of horticultural, especially in the Solanaceae family (including tomato, pepper, and eggplant), which relies on selecting high-performance lines for ...

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

AI-driven plant breeding accelerates trait identification for climate adaptation and food security, but risks inequality and environmental harm. Democratic control of these technologies are vital for ...

Janet Kiddoo, a plant lover in Northridge, sent an email regarding a new innovation in tomato growing. Through conventional plant breeding methods — with no GMO (genetically modified organism) ...

This Research Topic is part of the article collection series -<a href=" Plant Genotyping: From Traditional Markers to Modern ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Abiotic stress physiology is a critical field within plant science, particularly as climate change and environmental ...