Some plants stay healthy even when a key nutrient drops. New research explains the root and cell tricks that help plants ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

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What makes plants tolerant to nutrient fluctuations? An international research team led by the Technical University of Munich ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

City plants are changing in ways that are visible to anyone who pays attention to sidewalks, vacant lots, and pocket parks, ...

Scientists have taken a close look at what happens on the molecular level when DNA is inserted into the genome of a plant. They determined the genetic sequence and epigenetic features of plants that ...

A group of researchers has discovered a new approach to cereal plant breeding that takes into account the internal 'calculator' of plant seeds that makes them continuously reorganize themselves ...

Researchers have discovered that plants may be able to control the genetics of their intimate root symbionts - the organism with which they live in symbiosis - thereby providing a better understanding ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...