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 ...

Natural genetic variation in the genome ensures biodiversity and drives evolution. However, as natural evolutionary processes require millennia, we cannot wait for them to adapt crop plants to the ...

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.

Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are resilient or resistant to extreme weather and other ...

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 ...

Plant regeneration represents a cornerstone of modern plant science, blending fundamental questions in developmental biology ...

A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant populations, according to a new study. The results have the ...

Building on the fundamental discoveries of Mendel, plant genomics has had a major role in advancing the genetic improvement of crops worldwide, particularly in developed economies where the ...

Domesticated around 8,000 years ago 1, cotton cultivation began with a reduction in genetic diversity during the initial selection process, but cultivated germplasm has since diversified from this ...

The remarkable range of traits found within a single plant species gives home gardeners a practical starting point for ...

Dr. Claudia Köhler Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology Tel. 0331/567 8100 Koehler@mpimp-golm.mpg.de ...