For thousands of years, humans have sought to improve their plants to ensure they have safe and nutritious sources of food. It started out with the simple act of selecting the strongest, most ...

Ensuring food security in the face of massive population growth, climate change and geopolitical conflicts is a vital challenge for agricultural scientists worldwide 1. Germplasm improvement with the ...

In January 2026, the CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program convened the third in a series of roundtable discussions to better understand the emerging benefits—and potential risks—of artificial ...

Polyploidization is a common and important evolutionary process in the plant kingdom. Compared with diploid plant species, the intricate genome architecture of polyploid plant species presents ...