News of Plant Breeding
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Building bridges between science and society: WUR launches podcast on CRISPR-Cas
December 4, 2023 - To what extent can and should you tinker with the genetic building blocks of crops? These and other questions are addressed in Wageningen University... -
Breakthrough in fight against devastating potato disease
April 20, 2023 - Potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. But potato world production is... -
How hybrid plant varieties could address the challenges of food security and climate change
May 16, 2022 - 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
September 21, 2021 - 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
July 6, 2021 - 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
June 24, 2021 - Wageningen research enables faster development of new resilient varieties. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have unravelled... -
The DNA of lettuce unravelled: in 6000 years from weed to beloved vegetable
April 12, 2021 - 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
March 23, 2021 - 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
February 12, 2021 - 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
October 23, 2020 - Cooperation between the Plant Sciences Group and Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS) in Zhengzhou is being intensified. Over the next few...