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AI is Changing The Way Breeders Make Decisions
2+ week, 4+ day ago (921+ words) AI platforms around the world are already changing how crop breeders analyze data, evaluate germplasm and make breeding decisions. AI is already being used to better understand trait physiology. In 2019, a University of California-Davis team published results from using AI…...
EU NGT Regulation: Why the 20-Nucleotide Threshold Could Limit Plant Breeding Innovation
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (418+ words) Europe has finally moved on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), and for that the seed sector should allow itself a moment of cautious celebration. After years of legal uncertainty, political wrangling and the long shadow of the GMO debate, the EU…...
Innovation is at the End of the Handoff Era
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (992+ words) For decades, innovation in agriculture often moved from one discipline to another in a series of handoffs. Traits moved to breeding. Breeding delivered products to the field. Crop protection addressed challenges that emerged along the way. Amanda McClerren says that…...
Seed Sector 2045: Future of Plant Breeding in Europe
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (698+ words) How to Read the MapEach line represents a group of related forces shaping the seed sector. Each station is one article in the series. Together, they trace a pathway towards Seed Sector 2045. Each year, the Seed World Europe Advisory Board…...
The Race to Accelerate Plant Breeding Innovation
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1181+ words) Plant breeders have always chased the same goal: genetic gain. Every improvement in yield potential, disease resistance, stress tolerance or agronomic performance traces back to a breeder’s ability to identify better genetics and move them into farmers’ fields. What has…...
Biotech Just Hit Fast Forward. Is Europe’s Seed Sector Ready?
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (812+ words) Biotechnology Moves from Promise to Practice Biotechnology is often described as a technology of the future. For Richard Harrison, managing director of plant sciences at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), that future is arriving much faster than many people in agriculture…...