Category: Crop breeding

How are plants bred to be biofortified? Why is it important?

By sustainablesecurefoodblog on June 7, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

sweet potatoes raw and cut

The plants in our diet are critical to our health. Food crops provide us with nutrients important to human health, growth, and metabolism. Different vegetable crops contain many types of vitamins and […]

How do scientists do traditional plant breeding?

By sustainablesecurefoodblog on February 7, 2018 • ( 6 Comments )

sweet potato flower being fertilized by hand

The “science” of plant breeding has only existed for a little more than a century. But, humans have unofficially been selecting for the ‘cream of the crop’ for over 10,000 years. Farmers […]