The organic plant-breeding project was developed in direct response to California organic growers, who have reported that the scarcity of seeds for cultivars that meet the needs of organic farming can ...

See About archive blog posts. Clif Bar Family Foundation has recently awarded the first fellowships in organic plant breeding in the United States. The fellowships are funded through the ...

Organic farming is valued for its environmental, health, and quality-of-life benefits, but its ability to feed a growing population is debated due to ...

Farmers Albert and Frances Lundberg left Nebraska in 1937 during the Dust Bowl to start a new life in the Sacramento Valley.

To achieve the European Green Deal's goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques ...

Just past the UC Davis recreation pool and nestled up against Highway 113 sits a vast swath of land, home of the Student Collaborative Organic Plant Breeding Education project, where students work ...

Organic Valley and Clif Bar and Co. established the endowment to expand research in organic plant breeding in particular. Hans Eisenbeis, Organic Valley’s spokesperson, said partnering with Clif Bar ...

New plant-breeding techniques have the potential to contribute to ... EU countries could take measures to ensure that category 1 plants are not unintentionally present in organic farming on their ...

On the surface, we don’t share much in common: One of us grows corn in Nigeria, and the other runs an organic vineyard and ... of NGT technology in plant breeding, is a confusing mess with ...

Mutation breeding uses genetic variations induced at the beginning of the plant breeding process to quickly develop large populations of improved crops, which can be further bred until a desired ...