When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

CSHL postdoc Iacopo Gentile has devised a new system for identifying redundant genes and predicting how certain genetic ...

Researchers have published a simple trick that improves the accuracy of techniques that help us understand how external variables -- such as temperature -- affect gene activity in plants. Researchers ...

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Cell division is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information. Each chromosome within a plant contains a ...

Knowing why something happens is one thing. Knowing how it happens is another. Supported by a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Jennifer Blake-Mahmud of the Hope College ...

Moira Rodriguez is a 3rd-year Biological Sciences PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) studying plant mitochondrial genetics, with a focus on DNA repair. This comes after earning ...

When the physicist Richard Feynman died in 1988, he left a note on his blackboard that read, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” Feynman may have been reflecting on the nature of scientific ...

The outcome of ITPGRFA GB 11 has a key lesson for the democratic movement. India needs a civil society independent of the ...

"It's really important to look across the plant kingdom because plants have solved so many problems already. Why not read their genomes like a book and try to understand it and solve the problems ...