Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Plant genetics stands at the forefront of understanding how plants perceive and respond to a fluctuating environment. Recent advances have elucidated complex gene regulatory networks that orchestrate ...

A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...

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 ...

As the global population continues to rise, the demand for agricultural productivity intensifies. However, the challenge is ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as important as the crop itself. A new study reveals that the specific 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 ...

As a result of climate change, a multitude of abiotic and biotic stresses are emerging, and their combination, known as ...

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 ...

"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 ...