A fast-track method of breeding disease-resistant ash trees has been developed by researchers leading efforts to conserve the ...

A breakthrough in pine tree breeding will help forests to adapt to climate change and bioenergy use. The technique can create new tree variants in half the time it take for current breeding methods ...

A research team developed and validated a liquid SNP chip named 'HbGBTS80K', which includes 80,080 SNPs evenly distributed across 18 chromosomes. This SNP chip effectively distinguished 404 rubber ...

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 ...

Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are often sold to farmers and the public on the grounds that they are the wave of the future, taking over where conventional plant breeding left off by improving ...

A fast-track method of breeding trees with resistance to ash dieback disease has been developed by Norwich-based researchers ...

Despite the scale of loss, a small population of ash trees remains and scientists have been working to breed more resilient ...

Of the American households that put up a tree, more than 80 percent put up a fake one, about double the number from 25 years ago, according to Gallup. What’s worse – if you’re a Christmas tree farmer, ...