crop breeding Content / crop breeding Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Making High-yielding Rice Affordable and Sustainable /news/making-high-yielding-rice-affordable-and-sustainable <p>Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, but most farmers don’t grow high-yielding varieties because the seeds are too expensive. Researchers from the University of California’s Davis and Berkeley campuses have identified a potential solution: activating two genes in rice egg cells that trigger their development into embryos without the need for fertilization, which would efficiently create high-yielding clonal strains of rice and other crops.</p> November 20, 2024 - 10:53am Andy Fell /news/making-high-yielding-rice-affordable-and-sustainable Genome Editing Used to Create Disease Resistant Rice /blog/genome-editing-used-create-disease-resistant-rice <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and an international team of scientists used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study published in the journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06205-2">Nature</a>&nbsp;June 14.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> June 15, 2023 - 10:11am Andy Fell /blog/genome-editing-used-create-disease-resistant-rice ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Students Breed Beans for Organic Farming /food/news/students-breed-beans-organic-farming <p>Breeders at the University of California, Davis, have begun field tests on high-yield, disease-resistant organic bean varieties.</p> April 11, 2018 - 3:14pm Amy M Quinton /food/news/students-breed-beans-organic-farming