Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

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 ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens.

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of ...

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 ...

The beneficial bacteria that colonise plant roots play a crucial role in nitrogen uptake and overall plant performance. An international research team, including scientists from the IPK Leibniz ...

King’s lomatia is a single clonal plant that has survived for over 43,000 years. Here’s how it’s outlasted ice ages, climate ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...