Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...

Here’s a type of fusion food you don’t see every day: fluffy, steamed grains of rice, chock-full of beef cells. It sounds Frankenstein. But the hybrid plant-animal concoction didn’t require any ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

The FAO-China-Uganda South-South Cooperation project was launched in Uganda in 2012, to boost agricultural productivity through the transfer of proven Chinese agricultural technologies and expertise.

Milon Sarker grows paddies on two bighas of land in Kalikapur, a village in Jashore’s Bagherpara upazila. He inherited the profession from his father, who cultivated varieties with lyrical names like ...