Six condor chicks were recently born at the Los Angeles Zoo, thanks to a new breeding technique that officials hope will strengthen the endangered bird’s population. Only about 500 California condors ...

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. The speed breeding platform developed by ...

They say speed kills, but when it comes to growing enough food for our future, speed could spell the difference between feast and famine. Luckily, there’s a group of scientists with their proverbial ...

A breakthrough in pine tree breeding will help forests to adapt to climate change and bioenergy use. The technique can create new tree variants in half the time it take for current breeding methods ...

Can organic and non-GMO agriculture offer innovative, tech-based solutions for our food system – or does hope lie in new plant breeding techniques? “Innovation in food and farming doesn’t implicitly ...

Smart new combinations of state-of-the-art molecular techniques mean that breeding programmes can be accelerated dramatically: it may soon take only two years instead of the current five or ten to ...

An innovative breeding technique could help bring Australia’s endangered kangaroos and wallabies back from the brink of extinction. The technique could deliver a six-fold increase in the breeding ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Valentine’s Day has gone and past, but love is still in the air right now for some saltwater crocodiles, or “salties” as they’re called, at Gatorland. Ahead of breeding season, the ...

A new technology, speed breeding, allows plants to be grown more rapidly. The technology produced wheat, from seed-to-seed in 8 weeks. Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest ...