Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing varieties that are ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion ...

Some chromosomes, such as B chromosomes, can increase their inheritance rate to their own advantage. These extra chromosomes ...

WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

Some chromosomes, such as B chromosomes, can increase their inheritance rate to their own advantage. These extra chromosomes are found in many plants, animals, and fungi and rely upon various ...

A seed company based in Regina names all new plant varieties after veterans —something a 103-year-old Second World War ...

A farmer says that major agriculture corporations are holding them 'hostage' by charging them for the 'right' to plant their ...

Today's UGA botanical mascot has nearly identical genomes as the first hedges planted in Sanford Stadium in 1929.

Apple trees, like many perennial plants, endure a prolonged juvenile stage before reaching maturity, during which they ...

Plant breeders, aiming to develop resilient and high-quality crops, often cross plants from different species to transfer ...

Crop plants and their wild progenitors differ, for example, in how many vegetative branches they initiate or how many seeds or fruits they produce and when. A common concern among crop ...