BASEL, Switzerland, February 16, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wheat is the world’s most genetically complex staple crop, with the wheat genome nearly six times the size of the human genome – making it the ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global seed maker Syngenta will release a new type of wheat developed with complex cross-breeding techniques in the United States next year, beating out rival companies that are ...

BASEL, Switzerland & CHASSIEU, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amoebas. These single-celled microorganisms are now at the heart of one of agriculture’s latest biological innovation – a bio-fungicide capable ...

In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing in an unfamiliar way. Stems weakened, plants collapsed, and fields that had ...

Wheat is the world’s most genetically complex staple crop, with the wheat genome nearly six times the size of the human genome – making it the most challenging of the world’s staple crops to sequence ...

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CHICAGO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Global seed maker Syngenta will release a new type of wheat developed with complex cross-breeding techniques in the United States next year, beating out rival companies ...