Plant scientists have been employing science to improve crops for centuries. Evidence from early cave dwellers suggest they selected seeds from plants that had the best tall stalks and seeds. A great ...

Andrea Lasar and Oliver Ladendorf of Maiwald Patentanwaltsgesellschaft outline the EPO’s decision on the patentability of plant breeding methods in the so-called broccoli case In December 2010 the ...

The steady decline in cultivable land owing to the rapidly increasing global population has necessitated the use of efficient plant breeding methods that could be used to improve agricultural yields.

Securing plant production is a global task. Using a combination of new molecular and statistical methods, a research team was able to show that material from gene banks can be used to improve traits ...

A group of researchers has discovered a new approach to cereal plant breeding that takes into account the internal 'calculator' of plant seeds that makes them continuously reorganize themselves ...

Research focuses on sorghum and the method they’ve developed could speed up ways to secure future food supplies worldwide.

The revised Patent Examination Guidelines foster innovation by redefining plant varieties, says Juhua Luo of CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office ...

After more than two years of wrangling, December saw negotiations conclude on a legal framework to ease the path for new genomic techniques (NGTs) in plant breeding. The European Council and the ...