A new study from an international team of researchers, including the University of British Columbia, is pushing back the origins of the delicious sweet treat. The study, published online today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests that cacao -- the plant from which chocolate is made -- was domesticated, or grown »
The inaugural harvest of the first gene-edited high-fiber wheat has been completed, as reported by its developer, Calyxt. The high-fiber wheat is the seventh Calyxt product that has been declared as non-regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), including powdery mildew-resistant wheat, high-oleic soybeans, high-oleic/low-linoleic soybeans, improved »
The ongoing worldwide loss of biological diversity is one of the most pressing challenges humankind currently faces. Biodiversity is vital to humans not least because it supports ecosystem services such as the provision of clean water and the production of biomass and food. Many experiments have shown that diverse communities »
The ASRBC Lab of ACI Ltd. is one of the ISTA member laboratories of the country. It has been working for the commercial production of high-quality potato plantlets for the last couple of years through its Tissue culture lab. The lab is equipped with all the necessary instruments and maintains »
Developing elite breeding lines and varieties often require plant breeders to combine desirable traits from multiple parental lines, particularly in the case of disease resistance. The process of combining traits, known as gene pyramiding, can be accelerated by using molecular markers to identify and keep plants that contain the desired »
Have you ever wanted to create interesting tools using or reusing ordinary materials available at your household? Were you inspired by the pictures of plastic bottles used as bird feeder which we shared few months back? Did you want to find out how it was made? If yes, then you »
• A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey. • The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. • The honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second. • A »
