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This renewed funding will enable the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement to strengthen its interdisciplinary efforts to support demand-driven, socially responsive crop improvement programs in key regions around the world.

Edward Buckler, a plant geneticist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and an adjunct professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, has been awarded the 2025 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies...

A partnership from the Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement seeks to improve sorghum breeding in Senegal and Costa Rica.

A Cornell program, Breeding Insight, is adding seven new plant and animal species to its arsenal of supported specialty crops and animals for 2022.

Breeding Insight, a new program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through Cornell University, will share latest tools with breeders in the U.S.

A new comparative study investigates whether the same patterns found in maize occurred in sorghum, a gluten-free grain grown for both livestock and human consumption. The researchers were surprised to find the opposite is true: Harmful mutations...

Aimee Schulz is a second-year Ph.D. student working with Edward Buckler, adjunct professor of plant breeding and genetics. Her research in the Buckler Lab for Maize Genetics and Diversity examines the plant’s competitive ability. Shulz said,...