With 3,000 miles between them — and not much precedent behind the wheel — Stephen Dellaporta, in New Haven, CT, and Tom ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

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A new study has identified the first known gene in eggplant that provides resistance to begomoviruses, a group of plant viruses responsible for major crop losses worldwide. The research shows that ...

As the human population continues to explode, the need for efficient crop growth also expands. While there have been great strides in plant genetics and modification, there is still much to be learned ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...

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 ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...