News of Plant Breeding
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How hybrid plant varieties could address the challenges of food security and climate change
- Hybrid agricultural and horticultural crops can play an important role in supporting global food security. They produce higher yields and are often... -
Discover internationally leading research and education centre Serre Red in a virtual 360 degree tour
- Wageningen University & Research (WUR) takes a new leading international research and education facility into use. Serre Red is located on the WUR... -
Faster potato breeding thanks to identification key gene for self-compatibility
- Researchers at the hybrid potato breeding company Solynta and Wageningen University & Research have identified, cloned and characterized the gene... -
Onion genome finally reveals its secrets
- Wageningen research enables faster development of new resilient varieties. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have unravelled... -
Scientists urge EU to allow the use of novel breeding techniques and modern biotechnology in organic farming
- Unless the European Union allows novel breeding techniques such as gene editing in organic agriculture, Europe’s Farm to Fork strategy will... -
The DNA of lettuce unravelled: in 6000 years from weed to beloved vegetable
- Iceberg lettuce, oakleaf lettuce, romaine, and all other lettuces that we eat nowadays, descend from wild plants that were modified 6000 years ago in... -
Researchers discover how to improve zinc content in plants
- More than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from malnutrition. Not because they are getting too few calories, but because their food contains... -
Opening the doors of potato pathogen perception
- An international team of researchers has struck an important blow in the ongoing evolutionary arms race with the notorious potato disease late blight... -
Closer cooperation with Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Cooperation between the Plant Sciences Group and Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS) in Zhengzhou is being intensified. Over the next few... -
WUR joins new EU innovation project to increase resilience and quality of tomato varieties
- WUR-researchers will participate in the new EU research initiative HARNESSTOM. In this project breeding companies, scientists and farmers join forces...