Waseem Hussain, senior scientist from the International Rice Research Institute, gave VIR’s Kim Oanh his insights on using AI ...

Pusa Beta Kesari 1 is India’s first biofortified, beta-carotene-rich cauliflower developed by ICAR-IARI. With high yields, ...

The Biotechnology Program has also expanded its STEM outreach efforts to include a summer internship program for high school ...

Annual award to be given to the senior student in the College of Agriculture whose high scholastic achievement, talent for independent research, and other characteristics, with reference to either ...

Plant architecture, the three-dimensional structural feature formed during morphogenesis, has a profound effect on crop yield and thus serves as a core element in high-yield breeding. However ...

We're excited to continue working together to refine this tool that could greatly improve plant breeding. We're starting to test this technology in other plants, including important crops.

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics.   Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

High accuracy and effective model selection enhances the efficacy of the whole breeding program (Resende and Alves 2020). Accuracy is one of the most important parameters in quantitative genetics and ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The government’s exam regulator established a qualification system for plant healthcare practitioners on Thursday and plans to hold the first test this year. The Examination ...

By scanning the plant genome for markers that consistently appear in plants with a desired trait, breeders can pinpoint regions likely responsible for that trait, and use that data to guide breeding .

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Alex Lipka (left) and Colorado State University's Geoffrey Morris (right) will test the omnigenic model ... team supports plant breeding programs ...