For thousands of years, humans have sought to improve their plants to ensure they have safe and nutritious sources of food. It started out with the simple act of selecting the strongest, most ...

Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.

This comprehensive book covers the underlying scientific principles, state of the art technologies and methodologies of plant mutagenesis. It covers historical development and commonly used ...

An international research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne (MPIPZ) has developed a new and very precise ...

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 ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method that enables plant cells to regenerate into complete plants without the need ...

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 ...

GAO Caixia's group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a new method of downregulating gene translation to a predictable and ...