Plants don't just grow, they build. From towering trees to delicate flowers, complex plant shapes are sculpted with remarkable precision. Now a study by biologists and biophysicists at Université de ...

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 ...

Crop hybrid technologies have contributed to the significant yield improvement worldwide in the past decades. However, designing and maintaining a hybrid production line has always been complex and ...

The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought, fire, and ...

Chinese scientists have identified a gene that could enable the fully mechanised production of hybrid rice seeds, bypassing current time and labour-intensive manual methods that limit breeding efforts ...

Silverton Wildflower Tours runs guided tours out of a private family farm. The tours showcase a beautiful variety of the farm ...

Tree-of-heaven -- or Ailanthus -- is an invasive triple threat, according to a team of plant pathologists. The species produces seeds early in its lifespan, tends to make millions of viable seeds ...

Ludhiana: ICAR–Indian Institute of Maize Research (ICAR-IIMR), Ludhiana, successfully undertook a first-time maize hybrid seed production trial in a farmer's field in Punjab. The trial was conducted ...

Without pollinators, a third of flowering plant species would produce no seeds and half would suffer an 80% or more reduction in fertility. Therefore, even though auto-fertility is common, it by no ...

Initiative for Quality Seed Production in Bihar The Cooperative Department of Bihar has decided to initiate a pilot project ...