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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Miscanthus species are bioenergy crops because they require lower nutrient concentrations to achieve more growth. Credit: L. Brian Stauffer Plants often develop communities with microorganisms in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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