As demands to maintain the global food production continue to mount, multinational seed companies are turning to new DNA marker technologies to accelerate the rate of plant breeding and crop ...
Alan Krivanek, a tomato breeder for Monsanto, dons a white protective suit, wipes his feet on a mat of disinfectant and enters a greenhouse to survey 80,000 seedlings. He is armed with a spreadsheet ...
In recent years, advances in molecular marker techniques have led to increased understanding of the genetic basis of agricultural traits in a variety of crops and livestock. In the breeding practice, ...