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A partnership from the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement seeks to improve sorghum breeding in Senegal and Costa Rica.

Betty and Alvin Perry of Cotuit are Valentines celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary Saturday.

Date Time Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led to an increase in harmful mutations to the crop’s genome compared to their wild relatives, which more recent modern breeding has helped to correct. Nadia Shakoor/Provided The image shows variation in flower head architecture of the different sorghum races, including (from left to right) bicolor, guinea, caudatum, kafir and durra. A new comparative study investigates whether the same patterns found in maize occurred in sorghum, a gl...

John Munson/Cornell University Chris Barrett led a one-year group effort to create a road map for global agricultural and food systems innovation, reform and sustainability. Barrett describes the report, funded by Cornell Atkinson, that was published Dec. 10 in Nature Sustainability. Cornell-led panel releases report on agri-food innovation December 10, 2020 To deflect future world food crises created by climate change and growing consumer demand, a Cornell-led international team of economists, scientists and business experts has created a road map for global agricultural and food...