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Creating crops that'll endure climate change — think worse droughts, heat waves and pests — is a time-consuming and costly feat. Avalo is betting its machine learning models can speed that process up and make it a whole lot cheaper too. The Durham, North Carolina–based startup, which pitched onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition, doesn't edit plant genes or breed crop varieties the traditional way.

Saskatoon, Aug. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A global team of scientists is looking to wheat’s past to help it grow into the future. More than two...

Last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) sent seeds into space. The seeds have now returned and the organisations will begin new efforts to develop resilient crops that can help provide sufficient food as the planet heats up.

Last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) sent seeds into space. The seeds have now returned and the organisations will begin new efforts to develop resilient crops that can help provide sufficient food as the planet heats up.

Saskatoon, Feb. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is pleased to...

Parliament has warned that government projections for the 2023 agricultural season will be severely affected by poor budgeting with the paltry ZWL$362bn allocation insufficient and likely to spell doom in a country facing food crisis. The ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development received ZWL$362.5bn from Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube’s…

For the first time in India, X-ray radiography has been established as an efficient method to quantify the commercially important traits in unshelled peanuts.

An odorless version of the divisive stinky fruit durian has been introduced in Thailand.

China has halved the rice growth cycle to around 60 days in a nursery using innovative technology for crop breeding, said Yang Qichang, a researcher of the Institute of Urban Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.