China enlists AI in hunt for better soybeans, but self-sufficiency unlikely any time soon

Chinese agricultural scientists have launched a generative AI breeding platform for soybeans, which play a central role in China’s agricultural trade. The Fengshu 2.0 platform marked “a shift in China’s soybean breeding towards data-assisted breeding and precision decision-making”, Xinhua reported recently, contrasting it with traditional methods that relied on experience and a trial-and-error approach. The artificial intelligence platform, which is expected to optimise breeding plans by making...