Stakeholders have called for the adoption of advanced technologies to transform Africa’s seed systems and boost food production across the continent. This was made known at the 7th Seedconnect Africa ...

Crop hybrid technologies have contributed to the significant yield improvement worldwide in the past decades. However, designing and maintaining a hybrid production line has always been complex and ...

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 ...

Synthetic seed technology represents a significant biotechnological advancement in plant science, enabling the encapsulation of explants—such as nodal segments, shoot tips or embryos—in a gelling ...

Seed Technology is an international journal containing scientific and technological papers in all areas of seed science and technology. The emphasis is on applied and basic research in seed physiology ...

Dharwad: The Seed Unit at University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad established in 1996, has been doing a yeomen service to the farmers not only in its jurisdiction but also those who are in ...

Dr Eliud Kireger, Director General, Kenya Agriculture Research and Livestock Organisation (KALRO), explains the new technology, Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) for hybrid maize seeds at ...

Service provider Bedilu Desta and his helper Fekadu Assefa drive a two-wheel tractor and thresher in the village of Gudoberet, Basona district, Ethiopia, in 2015. (Photo: Peter Lowe/CIMMYT) * Any ...

Farmers are often overlooked and undervalued as sources of innovation, but can be powerful drivers of ingenuity and development. We evaluate historical developments in the Australian subterranean ...

Aepnus Technology, an Emeryville, California-based electrochemical platform developer working to improve circularity in battery supply chain chemicals, has raised $8 million in seed financing to ...

This time of year, harvest is in full swing. For more than a century, one family-owned company has helped make the Treasure Valley a world leader in sweet corn seed. Crookham Company has been rooted ...