Something important for a Florida facing a hotter future was sent into space this week with NASA astronauts aboard a SpaceX rocket: Seeds. The hope is that when they return to Earth, they will produce ...

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 ...

Last year we did an article about how to read a plant label. We realized that we also are asked about how to pick the seeds for West Texas and what the seed type means. All seeds are a flowering plant ...

The newly opened Future Seeds genebank is part of a network of research resources that, it is hoped, will help crop scientists future-proof the food system against climate change and other shocks.

In an agricultural advancement, scientists have deciphered the genetic underpinnings of watermelon chromosomal translocations, the key to cultivating fruits with fewer seeds. The global demand for ...

KIBBUTZ GIVAT BRENNER, ISRAEL — Seed breeding start-up Equinom Ltd., secured $10 million in a Series B funding round led by Germany-based BASF Venture Capital, Roquette and Trendlines Group. The start ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF ...

Global crop protection and seeds firm Syngenta has agreed the sale of its UK malting barley seed breeding activities to major breeder Ragt. Syngenta’s decision to sell off its remaining UK seed ...