For years, F1 hybrid genetics have been used in the world of agriculture to help farmers create more resilient and productive crops. Now, these types of hybrid seeds are available to cannabis growers, ...

Most home gardeners believe that a seed taken from one of their plants will grow into the same type of plant. However, with the increasing prevalence of hybrid plants, this isn’t always the case. So, ...

Hybrid seed production is vital for enhancing crop yield and quality, yet conventional methods in rapeseed are limited by inefficiency and high costs. Researchers have developed a streamlined two-line ...

Before seeds came in glossy packets with barcodes, every gardener saved them. It was as ordinary as saving a recipe; ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

We look into how easy it is to just plant the seeds from grocery-store fruits and vegetables in order to get started on a ...