Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is a drought‐tolerant legume of growing global importance due to its high galactomannan content—a polysaccharide widely used as a thickening and stabilising agent in ...

James C. Schnable's pioneering genetics research got him recognized with the 2026 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food ...

A research team has elucidated the role of polyploidy in the evolution and breeding of vegetable crops, leveraging advanced sequencing technologies to dissect the genetic and epigenetic nuances of ...

Western Crop Genetics Alliance celebrates 10years of next generation pre-breeding research and signs up for another decade Alliance research helping ...

Contributing authors from Murdoch University's Western Crop Genetics Alliance and Murdoch University's Centre for Crop and Food Innovation inspect barley. An international team of scientists from ...

Brent Rendel couldn’t believe what he was seeing, so he double and tripled checked to make sure. In 2017, he thought he found two ringer soybean varieties, but the truth is he found one, sold by two ...

A pioneering study has unveiled key genetic drivers behind the valuable traits of the yardlong bean, a nutrient-rich crop favored across Southeast Asia. By mapping traits like anthocyanin content and ...

AMES, Iowa – Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing varieties that are more resilient and productive. But the intricate interplay ...

Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know ...

An international research team from Australia and China unveiled the first chromosome-scale genome of a wild barley species. The team believes its findings offer direct implications for more ...