3 May 2016 | Crops and Cereals | 5786 views

Opportunities of New Plant Breeding Techniques

Products from new breeding techniques provide major opportunities for making agriculture more sustainable.

This makes them a useful addition to common breeding practice, especially for crops where the desired variety improvements are currently very time-consuming, such as potatoes and apples.

These findings are contained in a literature review by leading agricultural university Wageningen, published in the renowned magazine Trends in Plant Science.