Advanced genomics, digital phenotyping, and predictive breeding models are helping researchers evaluate tens of thousands of ...

Planasa’s berry breeding programs. Six blueberry varieties and advanced strawberry selections have received the Superior ...

This week, experts announced that an estimated one billion animals in Australia have died from the wildfires, including thousands of koalas. Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering ...

Breeding schemes typically involve first the choice of parents and then the selection of offspring within crosses. Genomic prediction is adapted both for predicting the cross mean and for ranking the ...

New findings from a comparison of the long-term implications of zoo breeding programs bolster the case for so-called "maximum avoidance inbreeding," or MAI. MAI breeding programs can be costly and ...

A Washington State University study, led by Kate Evans, found that declining crop-breeding programs due to the coronavirus could threaten food security. The coronavirus has already brought gaps to ...

The Texas horned lizard was once a common sight across the Lone Star State, but habitat loss and invasive fire ants have ...

Scientists have decided to retire one of the world’s last two northern white rhinos from their assisted breeding program, which strives to save the subspecies from extinction. BioRescue will no longer ...

A team of scientists led by a horticulture professor who leads a pome fruit (apples and pears) breeding program, found that public plant breeding programs are seeing decreases in funding and personnel ...

Public plant breeding programs are declining across the United States. A team of scientists led by Kate Evans, a Washington State University horticulture professor who leads WSU's pome fruit (apples ...