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To maximise seed yields and ensure seed purity, pollination control is essential in oil palm breeding. However, choosing the right pollination control product is critical to success – with quality pollination control offering serious benefits in yield and high ROI. Learn how in this blog.

Pollination control is essential in sorghum breeding, but its use depends heavily on the stage of the breeding programme. Here, we examine the sorghum breeding process, and how to choose the right pollination control depending on your breeding project goals.

This page explains how and why cannabis breeding is challenging and how breeders can use pollination control solutions to overcome difficulties. You will learn what challenges cannabis breeders face, how pollination control solutions can help, and a list of tools that cannabis breeders use to support their breeding programmes.

Glassine paper, sometimes known as butter paper, has served plant breeding programmes for decades as a material pollination bags are made from.  Used for purposes such as packaging food items and as bookbinding, it was not designed for the demands of modern hybridisation. In contrast, duraweb®, a proprietary non-woven material designed specifically for use by plant breeders.

Hops are grown around the world, and the European Union (EU) alone produces 50,000 tonnes of hops annually. Among the EU countries, Germany accounts for 60% of hop-growing acreage – making it both a European and world leader in hops cultivation and production.

For more than 40 years, PBS International has supported plant breeding and seed producing projects around the world.