The course is currently under testing phase.An e-learning course on induced genetic variation for crop improvementThe objective of this training course is:To provide an overview of mutation breeding ...

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Innovative plant breeding programmes using safe and proven nuclear techniques are vital for enhancing food security and sustainable agriculture. For nearly 60 years, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of ...

Mechanical harvesting is replacing labor-intensive hand-plucking to meet global tea production needs. However, many traditional tea cultivars have soft, droopy leaves that break easily during machine ...

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 ...

For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we've bred and cherry-picked tomatoes with our preferred traits. Today, ...

Land O’Lakes has been granted a patent for high throughput methods to identify combinations of genetic mutations that can enhance a specific trait in plants. The methods involve creating plant cells ...