May 11—(Joan Casanova) In neighborhoods across the country, homeowners are getting extra help in their quest for the elusive, perfect lawn. The secret? An innovation in grass seed technology known as ...

Seventy-five-thousand dollars is a lot of money to put into a tool whose only job is to obliterate weed seeds. But buying such a tool – called a harvest weed seed control system (HWSC), which uses ...

Synthetic seed technology represents a significant biotechnological advancement in plant science, enabling the encapsulation of explants—such as nodal segments, shoot tips or embryos—in a gelling ...

USDA advanced regulatory approval for a Davis-based company creating a new seed technology that will allow growers to identify plant stress within 48 hours of onset and help pinpoint remedies with ...

You want to protect every asset on your farm, and your seeds are no exception. However, the moment they are planted into the soil, they become vulnerable to insect pests, diseases and stress, putting ...

Stakeholders have called for the adoption of advanced technologies to transform Africa’s seed systems and boost food production across the continent. This was made known at the 7th Seedconnect Africa ...

Olisa Babafemi, a Nigerian specialist in plant and seed science, is contributing to agricultural research, seed quality ...

Industrial processing to deliver high-quality commercial seed includes removing chemical inhibitors of germination, and is essential to produce fresh sprouts, achieve vigorous crop establishment, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF ...

A "cyber seed" could grow to a programmed design structure, which could help reshape health equipment, vehicles, and other technology in the future. “Cyber Seed” grows to whatever design it was ...