In a paper published on aBIOTECH, the authors developed an efficient haploid identification (HID) system for wheat by ...

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...

A common strategy to create high-yielding plants is hybrid breeding. However, getting the inbred lines in the first place can be a hassle. In maize, the use of so-called 'haploid inducers' provides a ...

Conventional crop breeding is not time-efficient for creating inbred lines with desired genetic traits owing to the diploid nature of plants, wherein they have two sets of chromosomes, one from each ...

An efficient and robust protocol to induce embryogenesis in lovage (Levisticum officinale W.D.J. Koch) has been developed. Immature anthers, with most of the microspores at the late uninucleate stage, ...

The recently discovered technique of producing haploid plants from the culture of immature anthers of flowering plants (androgenesis) is potentially of great significance in plant breeding and ...

The new haploid breeding technology has significantly sped up the process of maize breeding in China, said Dai Jingrui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and a professor at ...

Site-directed mutagenesis facilitates the experimental validation of gene function and can speed up plant breeding by producing new biodiversity or by reproducing previously known gene variants in ...