News & Views

We’re delighted to announce the publication of the latest research paper Assessing the effectiveness of nonwoven fabric pollination tents for improved grass breeding by Michael Trammell, Dusty G. Pittman, Daljit Singh Virk and Hannah Senior. 

PBS would like to announce that we have launched our new Instagram page.

We are delighted to learn from our friends at the NCSU Cooperative Tree Improvement Programme (CTIP) that the first publication from the collaborative pollination bag study is about to go to print!

It feels like a lifetime ago. We set out on our journey to work out how to control wind-borne pollen, reliably, over areas of multiple square meters. Customers were asking us for this to maintain genetic purity when yield testing and bulking up varieties of wind pollinated crops, or when producing hybrid seed on larger-than-single plant scale.

I'm often asked how I feel about our work in oil palm. So here's my take on it - why it's an important crop, the role of sustainable sourcing, and how our work at PBS International fits in.

Cannabis is suddenly big business. Declared illegal in many (most?) countries in the 1920s and 30s, there has been a huge resurgence in interest since its medicinal uses.