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Canada

A Farmer’s Most Important Assets Don’t Appear on a Yield Map

Living soils, the best genetics and capable plant scientists quietly determine the future of Canadian...
Canada

Could Research Cuts Push Canada’s Young Plant Breeders Elsewhere?

With public research under pressure, emerging scientist Ben Erickson explains what Canada must do to...
Canada

How Drought is Changing Canola’s Battle With Verticillium Stripe

University of Manitoba researcher Shruti Kashyap is uncovering how water stress influences disease resistance —...

Zachary Jones podcast
U.S.

A Big Lesson from NAPB ’26: Technology Isn’t Enough

Corn breeder Zachary Jones explains why communication, confidence and a commitment to rural communities still...
Canada

OP-ED: Why Canada’s Plant Breeding Advantage is No Longer Guaranteed

Kenny Piecharka of KWS says conversations that once happened in the hallway are finally happening...
Europe

How Plant ETP Supports Plant Breeding Innovation

Plant ETP connects researchers, breeders, farmers and seed sector stakeholders to align priorities for European...
A young plant sprouting from soil with a superimposed European Union flag and digital network.
Europe

Seed Sector 2045: Is Europe Competitive for Plant Breeding Innovation?

Europe has strong plant breeding talent, public research and seed systems, but plant breeding innovation...
Canada

You Can Process More Lines. You Can’t Automate Better Ideas.

Technology lets breeders evaluate tens of thousands of candidates, but Brian Rossnagel says efficiency cannot...
Canada

Why the New Plant Breeder is Part Geneticist and Part Data Scientist

A University of Saskatchewan PhD student is combining field experience, genetics and AI to build...
Canada

Faster Plant Breeding Puts Canada’s Seed System to the Test

Advances in genomics are accelerating breeding while raising new questions about variety registration, research infrastructure...

Yue Yu
Canada

Can Genomics Speed Up the Journey From Breeder to Farmer?

Genomic prediction can help identify promising plants before breeders spend years evaluating them. But there’s...
Mariano Alvarez of Avalo discusses how AI is changing crop breeding and genetic selection.
U.S.

AI is Changing The Way Breeders Make Decisions

AI in crop breeding is helping researchers analyze germplasm, predict crosses, select genes and make...
Canada

Is Canada’s Variety Registration System Slowing Seed Innovation?

Canada’s variety registration system helped build confidence in Canadian seed. But breeders, farmers and seed...
Canada

Canada’s Plant Breeding Future Depends on People, Not Just Funding

As Canada rethinks its breeding ecosystem, researchers like Yue Yu show why the next model...
Ana Maria Heilman-Morales discusses the future of plant breeding and the importance of mentorship and service.
U.S.

Plant Breeding’s Future Depends on More Than Science

The future of plant breeding needs more than technical skill. Ana Maria Heilman-Morales explains why...
Popcorn kernel samples from the University of Illinois Illini SuperPop breeding program
U.S.

Butter-Optional Popcorn

Illini SuperPop started as a University of Illinois genetics project and grew into a new...
Canada

The Future of Plant Breeding Could Begin Before the Field Trial

Ask Yue Yu what she wants to do in her career, and the answer is...
Marta Pudzianowska discusses PBCC’s new mission to support public plant breeding.
U.S.

Public Plant Breeders Need More Than Funding; They Need Support

NAPB's Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee is sharpening its role as public breeders face funding, workforce...
Canada

Flax Could Hold an Answer to Farming’s Fertilizer Problem

The discovery could eventually help breeders create crops that need less fertilizer and cost farmers...
Researcher uses a pipette while studying Arabidopsis seeds in an NYU laboratory.
U.S.

Scientists Find the Switch That Tells Plants They Have Enough Nitrogen

Researchers identified a genetic stop signal that limits nitrogen uptake, opening a possible path toward...

Hannah Jeffery explains why plant breeding needs better public communication
U.S.

Plant Breeding Needs Better PR and NAPB’s Communications Chair Has a Plan

Hannah Jeffery, incoming NAPB Communications Committee chair, explains how better communication can help the public...
This week's biggest seed industry stories all point to the same conclusion: innovation alone isn't enough.
Canada

The Seed Sector Has a Connection Problem, Not an Innovation Problem

This week's biggest stories all point to the same conclusion: the people who can make...
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Europe

Seed Sector 2045: How Low-Input Farming Is Changing Plant Breeding

Low-input farming is becoming a strategic priority for European seed companies as farmers face tighter...
Texas A&M corn breeder Wenwei Xu displays high-anthocyanin corn in a research field.
U.S.

Corn’s Next Job Description Is Getting Longer

Texas A&M researchers are breeding corn hybrids for aflatoxin resistance, improved nutrition, climate resilience and...
Canada

Climate Change is Rewriting the Rules of Disease Resistance. Neha Paserkar Wants Plant Breeders Ready

The McGill University PhD student is working to understand how crops will defend themselves against...
Mature sorghum grain heads growing in a field
U.S.

Sorghum Researchers Build a New Roadmap for Nutritional Traits

Researchers are using genomics, metabolomics and machine learning to map the compounds inside sorghum grain...
Side-by-side overhead comparison of corn plants with off-row and on-row leaf orientations used in AI corn breeding research.
U.S.

Building Better Corn in Virtual Fields

AI-powered virtual fields are helping corn breeders evaluate canopy architecture, identify promising traits and improve...
Canada

Can AI Unlock Hemp’s Potential? Meet One of Canada’s Rising Plant Breeders

Why would you leave wheat research to focus on hemp? One of Canada's up-and-coming plant...
Soybeans and the European Union Flag. Reducing Dependence on Imported Soy, Providing the European Union with a Protein Source, and Promoting Environmentally Friendly Agriculture. Photo: Adobe
Europe

After the NGT Regulation, Time to Rationalise the GMO Directive

GMO Directive reform is needed to align Europe’s seed approval system with the new NGT...
Canada

Young Plant Breeder Wins CPBI Scholarship for AI-Powered Hemp Research

Vincent Fetterley is developing genomic and computer vision tools to help breeders improve hemp faster...
Canada

At 25, Anirup Sengupta is Already Thinking Decades Ahead for Agriculture

From rural West Bengal to Saskatchewan’s leading agricultural research programs, he’s helping build the genomic...

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Europe

BSPB Celebrates 60 Years of Plant Breeding Progress

The British Society of Plant Breeders is marking 60 years of supporting plant breeding in...
Attendees of the 2026 National Association of Plant Breeders annual meeting gather for a group photo at Texas A&M University.
U.S.

Nutrition Emerged as a Big Theme at NAPB 2026

From human health to consumer expectations, NAPB 2026 showed how plant breeding priorities are expanding...
Canada

Brian Rossnagel Inducted Into Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame for Transforming Barley and Oat Breeding

The longtime Crop Development Centre breeder developed more than 100 barley and oat varieties, including...
Canada

A Lifetime in Plant Breeding: Dr. Weikai Yan Honoured for Four Decades of Scientific Leadership

From his early studies in China to leading oat breeding efforts in Canada, Yan has...
Canada

The Common Thread Running Through This Week’s Biggest Seed Industry Stories

New conversations about seed policy, concerns over declining agricultural R&D investment, and recognition for two...

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Breeders Who Embrace the Future Will Have the Edge

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Los mejoradores que abracen el futuro tendrán la ventaja

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The Proof is in the Product

When Your Seed Expertise Becomes a Bridge to Recovery

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Seed Sector 2045: The Future Seed Sector May Be More Layered Than Larger

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