At first glance, Chris Smith’s modest farm plot outside Asheville, North Carolina, has nothing in common with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle collider located on the border of ...

New furrow opener design improves crop breeding by precisely placing seeds. Rotating V-shaped rollers create stable soil grooves, limiting seed drift & spacing inconsistencies. Simulations & tests ...

Some new and professional growers choose strains by instinct; others prefer science and planning. Either way, the genetics behind cannabis seeds are now more advanced than ever. As the cannabis ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel ...

Chinese scientists have announced a series of major breakthroughs in developing "precision-designed" seeds that can increase crop yields while reducing fertilizer use and enhancing disease resistance, ...

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 ...

Leveraging the policy advantages of the Hainan Free Trade Port and the island province's tropical climate, Hainan is building a Nanfan "Silicon Valley," a global platform for seed industry cooperation ...

Even in mid-December, farmlands at the Nanfan Scientific and Research Breeding Base in the southern Hainan city of Sanya ...