Have you ever thought about what happens if you cross a potato with a watermelon? Or a tomato and a turnip? These are the bizarre and often disturbing hybrid crops you can make with certain seeds in ...

A corn hybrid with poor yield potential or mismatched traits can’t always be improved with better management. That’s why ...

With low commodity prices and higher input costs, identifying hybrids that are a good fit for your soil types and ...

For years, F1 hybrid genetics have been used in the world of agriculture to help farmers create more resilient and productive crops. Now, these types of hybrid seeds are available to cannabis growers, ...

University of Idaho Extension researchers see promise in hybrid rye and teff as potential forage crop options that could fill important niches for Idaho farmers. Hybrid rye — a cross of two rye ...

SIBY, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last year, when drought hit in the middle of the growing season in his region of southern Mali, Baba Berthé lost his entire two-hectare maize crop. "I ...

An official with the Kansas Crop Improvement Association encourages the state’s farmers to look for signs of a wild triticale hybrid found recently in wheat fields. Marion Spiering, the manager of ...

Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice to propagate by seeds. Recently, a collaborative research team led by Professor Li Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and ...

Throughout the ages, farmers have planted seed saved from their previous wheat crop. When making seed wheat decisions, they selected the best quality seed from the highest yielding varieties. Choosing ...

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