Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have  uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling DNA ...

Drought is one of the most damaging environmental stresses limiting plant growth, productivity, and survival. Understanding how plants sense water ...

Duckweed is the fastest-growing flowering plant, but new knowledge of duckweed genetics discovered by Adelaide University researchers could lead to even faster growing rates. The research team, led by ...

Plant breeding has contributed to the sustainability of crop production since antiquity and is expected to play an increasingly important role in the ...

Today roughly 25 percent of the global population works the land. Their grueling labor feeds the remaining 75 percent. The ...

The field of plant abiotic stress physiology explores how environmental extremes impact the fundamental biological processes of agronomic crops. In recent ...

Spain has alerted the World Health Organization of what it believes to be a person-to-person transmission of the swine flu virus in its A(H1N1)v variant, a spokesperson for health authorities in the ...

University of Florida researchers engineered and bred tomatoes using a pepper carotenoid-pathway gene to boost beta-carotene ...