In the not-so-distant past, if you gardened, you also saved seeds. You don’t have to now, but you still might want to. Saving seeds is like the black belt for gardeners. If you want to take your ...

Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and the cookies for dessert. Not one would be possible with the humblest of ingredients: the seed. Seeds such ...

The newly opened Future Seeds genebank is part of a network of research resources that, it is hoped, will help crop scientists future-proof the food system against climate change and other shocks.

Artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how crops are bred, and the biggest gains may come not in corn or wheat but in ...

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 ...