As climate change worsens, flooding, drought, and other calamities will increase food insecurity around the globe. In November, the International Atomic Energy Agency sent seeds to the ISS to induce ...

Lifeasible, a leading biotechnology company focused on agricultural breeding, has recently upgraded its space breeding service, offering researchers and agricultural enterprises a more powerful ...

On the occasion of this milestone of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre, Achievement and Outstanding Achievement Awards were initiated to honor and appreciate the successes of Member States in plant mutation ...

A recently completed five-year IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) (D25005) has helped experts from 12 countries to identify novel sources of resistance to the devastating parasitic weed Striga in ...

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When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led to an increase in harmful mutations to the crop's genome compared to their wild relatives, which more recent ...

Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads to ...

Strawberries are notoriously soft and highly perishable, posing challenges to global production. Recent research has identified a genetic breakthrough that could help cultivate firmer strawberries ...

Most plants can reproduce both sexually (through flowers and seed) but many important crops, such as potatoes and strawberry, are propagated vegetatively, e.g. through tubers or shoots. A new study of ...