Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are ...

UC Davis graduate student Jeffrey Groh has discovered how walnut trees are able to produce flowers of different sexes at different times in the same season. The genetic mechanism is similar to sex ...

Traditional varieties of Chilean blueberries are being replaced by new genetics, while production systems are moving toward ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

Plant genetics and breeding are at the heart of sustainable agriculture, food security, and biodiversity conservation. As global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and shifting ...

Tools like CRISPR-Cas9 are creating new opportunities for innovation in St. Louis, as well as risks around IP protection and regulation.

Biological functions, resource availability, and evolutionary processes often play a key role in determining the expression of genetic traits and their correlations. In fact, several plant traits are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...

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 ...

Lagoda, P.J.L. 2.1 Use of Tissue Culture and Mutation Induction to Improve Banana Production for Smallholders in Sri Lanka. In: Chapter 2: Case Studies in the Crop Sector of Biotechnologies at Work ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered certain proteins may be the key to saving plants' lives when ...