3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (487+ words) Our greatest competitive advantage may soon be the ability to turn uncertainty into a decision faster than anyone else. We often describe innovation as the creation of something new. But increasingly, I think innovation will be measured by how quickly…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (328+ words) Artificial intelligence dominated the official agenda when plant breeders gathered at Texas A&M University in June for the annual meeting of the National Association for Plant Breeding. But beneath the conversations about genomics, phenomics and machine learning was a…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (491+ words) The University of Idaho has received a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop data collection technologies and artificial intelligence models for breeding stronger, higher-yielding cereal crops. The research will focus on reducing stalk lodging — the bending or…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (239+ words) Luke Dojack still remembers when plant breeding first captured his imagination. In middle school, he encountered a passage in Les Misérables describing a man whose hobby was crossing plums. Inspired, he began crossing morning glories in his backyard for different…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (537+ words) The National Potato Innovation Centre is part of a global partnership launching an international research initiative to accelerate the delivery of improved crop varieties to farmers facing climate change, pests and disease. Genetic Acceleration through Artificial Intelligence for Root and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (921+ words) AI platforms around the world are already changing how crop breeders analyze data, evaluate germplasm and make breeding decisions. AI is already being used to better understand trait physiology. In 2019, a University of California-Davis team published results from using AI…...