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

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

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

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

This postdoc uses genome sequencing to uncover genes that shaped plant domestication and can be used to guide the development ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the physicist Richard Feynman died in 1988, he left a note on his blackboard that read, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” Feynman may have been reflecting on the nature of scientific ...

Autoflower seeds are cannabis seeds that flower based on age instead of light cycles. Regular cannabis plants need specific hours of darkness to start flowering, autoflowers just do it automatically ...