A Washington State University study, led by Kate Evans, found that declining crop-breeding programs due to the coronavirus could threaten food security. The coronavirus has already brought gaps to ...

Congress has approved funding and support for federal citrus programs critical to growers across the country. Additional program support includes a Citrus Health Response Program, the HLB Multi-Agency ...

California Citrus Mutual and the Citrus Research Board were recently awarded $1 million in new federal funding for critical research programs that support the U.S. and California citrus industries, ...

Breeding schemes typically involve first the choice of parents and then the selection of offspring within crosses. Genomic prediction is adapted both for predicting the cross mean and for ranking the ...

Public plant breeding programs are declining across the United States. A team of scientists led by Kate Evans, a Washington State University (WSU) horticulture professor who leads WSU's pome fruit ...