Unlike conventional farming methods, participatory plant breeding allows farmers to make their own decisions on which seeds to plant and thereby become part of the evolutionary process. The five ...
The global food price crisis of 2008 highlighted the necessity for innovation in agriculture to address food insecurity in the context of a changing climate and a growing population. The world ...
Securing plant production is a global task. Using a combination of new molecular and statistical methods, a research team was able to show that material from gene banks can be used to improve traits ...