The initiative will be executed through a national genomic selection breeding consortium of public and private sector breeding organizations, led by the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at ...

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

Proportion of phenotypic variation associated with individual (i.e., advanced selection, cultivar, parent, progenitor, or unselected offspring), year, year × ...

Accurately predicting complex agronomic traits remains a major bottleneck in crop breeding. This study demonstrates how ...

Researchers spotlight how selecting cattle for lower methane emissions could deliver long-term gains in efficiency and ...

The agricultural industry is grappling with escalating challenges caused by increasing global temperatures and heat stress induced by climate change. However, an unexpected solution has emerged: cow ...

Finding and buying a new herd bull can be overwhelming with the vast amount of information and data available. Industry ...

Economic and environmental sustainability remain key drivers, with selection focused on feed conversion ratio, feed intake ...

Hydrangeas are old-fashioned, yet there are still many new developments in breeding and selection. Both the bigleaf and ...