January 15, 2025

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The astonishing scientists who starved to protect plants during the Second World War - The trials and tribulations of the world’s first seed bank reveal botanists’ enormous generosity and sacrifice during the siege of Leningrad (Nature)

January 14, 2025

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Agriculture to flourish on precision breeding: who will benefit? (Nature)

December 12, 2024

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A technical approach to global plant genome editing regulation (Nature)

August 14, 2024

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Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome (Nature)

July 26, 2024

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Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity (Nature)

July 4, 2024

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The quest for hardy crops that need less fertilizer (Nature)

January 26, 2024

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CRISPR-edited crops break new ground in Africa - Scientists in the global south use the popular technique to protect local crops against local threats (Nature)

January 24, 2024

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How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop - Scientists are attempting to rapidly domesticate wild plant species by editing specific genes, but they face major technical challenges — and concerns about exploitation of Indigenous knowledge (Nature)

January 10, 2024

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How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop (Nature)

January 9, 2024

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Integrative and inclusive genomics to promote the use of underutilised crops (Nature)

December 6, 2023

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Options for regulating new genomic techniques for plants in the European Union (Nature)

October 17, 2023

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Adapting crop production to climate change and air pollution at different scales (Nature)

September 21, 2023

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Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it (Nature)

August 21, 2023

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European Union rethinks genome editing (Nature Plants)

July 24, 2023

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EU proposal on CRISPR-edited crops is welcome — but not enough (Nature)

May 9, 2023

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Regulation of plants developed through new breeding techniques must ensure societal benefits (Nature)

May 4, 2023

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Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward (Nature)

May 2, 2023

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Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops - More political and public awareness of the plight of the world’s crops when it comes to fungal disease is crucial to stave off a major threat to global food security (Nature)

April 6, 2023

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Food system actor perspectives on future-proofing European food systems through plant breeding (Nature)

March 22, 2023

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How Latin America’s genomics revolution began — and why the field is under threat (Nature)

October 3, 2022

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Climate change may outpace current wheat breeding yield improvements in North America (Nature)

September 27, 2022

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Balancing incentives for innovation in new plant varieties (Nature)

July 20, 2022

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The true legacy of Gregor Mendel: careful, rigorous and humble science - The friar’s experiments laid the groundwork for genetics — and his understated approach to his work is inspirational (Nature)

May 23, 2022

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The grand challenge of breeding by design (Nature)

May 6, 2022

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Crucial factors for the feasibility of commercial hybrid breeding in food crops (Nature Plants)

March 23, 2022

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Broken bread — avert global wheat crisis caused by invasion of Ukraine (Nature)

February 16, 2022

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China’s approval of gene-edited crops energizes researchers (Nature)

December 7, 2021

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Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems (Nature)

September 7, 2021

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Waive CRISPR patents to meet food needs in low-income countries (Nature)

August 24, 2021

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Data-driven decentralized breeding increases prediction accuracy in a challenging crop production environment (Nature)