Farmers already started to modify plants physically and genetically in order to achieve better yields several thousand years ago. The Director-General of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Cimmyt)…
Plant breeding relies on discovering, generating, selecting and utilising genetic variation in agronomic traits. This can be achieved in many ways – and at very different speeds. Our authors present various approaches…
The organisation AfricaRice has committed itself to supporting African countries in their efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in the rice sector. In 1992, the organisation started working on interspecific hybridisation…
New plant breeding technologies (NPBTs) allow biotic and abiotic problems in crop production to be addressed much faster and more precisely than conventional ones. Legal regulations governing the use of technologies vary…
Plant breeders call the phenomenon of the progeny generations producing a superior yield compared to that of parent plants the heterosis effect. In subsequent generations, this effect is lost again. However, it can be…
10 Years of ProSoil: Sharing knowledge on good practices in soil protection and rehabilitation through the WOCAT Global Database on Sustainable Land Management
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