Crops leave a legacy in the soil that shapes the next season’s harvest, and the size of that legacy depends on the variety’s genetics. This Perspective proposes breeding for entire rotations rather ...

Installment 7 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future explores improvements in crop breeding that have the potential to boost yields, including marker-assisted breeding, genomics-assisted breeding, and ...

The already sophisticated breeding systems for major commodity crops like Corn and Soybeans are being synergized through the use of genome editing technology Genome editing with CRISPR and other tools ...

When rangeland dries up and a rancher culls his breeding herd, the cattle check that lands in his account may not exist at all in Social Security's eyes, and understanding why requires untangling a ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

In January 2026, the CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program convened the third in a series of roundtable discussions to better understand the emerging benefits—and potential risks—of artificial ...

Cracking a long-standing scientific barrier Cavendish is a 'triploid' banana, meaning it has three sets of chromosomes ...

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Twelve whooping cranes, one of the most endangered species of crane in the world, moved to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, yesterday, Dec. 16. It is the ...