The Department of Agriculture is working to increase the number of coconut varieties as part of a wider effort to boost food ...

Animal genetics plays a crucial role in modern agriculture, enhancing food sustainability, and animal adaptation to a changing climate. Over the years, animal breeders have underlined the significance ...

Winter squash (Cucurbita moschata D.) is one of the most socioeconomically and nutritionally important vegetables in the Cucurbita genus, cultivated worldwide. It stands out for the nutritional value ...

China reported the world's largest collection in agricultural germplasm resources in the first half of 2024, following a recently concluded national survey, marking a historic milestone in the domain ...

Scientists are embarking on a study to index the useful genetic variation of more than 2,000 accessions in the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, grape germplasm collection. The Agricultural ...

The USDA-ARS NPGS is confident that implementing this plan will address current operational and research challenges. The collection is vital for maintaining the nation's food supply by providing ...

The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) Regional centre Bhowali in Kumaon has collected germplasm of over 27,000 plants in the form of seeds and saplings under its initiative to ...

Texas growers tried hemp. They used Colorado germplasm and European germplasm without much success. Now a team of Texas A&M AgriLife breeders is trying to fill a gap in breeding that hasn’t been met ...

Biotechnology requires germplasm, as both raw material and a source of natural variation. As a way of shaping and using genetic information, biotechnology has implication for germplasm conservation ...

Duplicate accessions were identified using pairwise multilocus matching among all individual samples. DNA samples that were fully matched at the genotyped SNP loci were declared the same cultivar or ...