Reliable crop yields fueled the rise of human civilizations. As people embraced a new way of life, cultivated plants, too, ...

Nestled in the rolling farmland of central Washington is the small, un-assuming town of Odessa. Established in 1902, primarily by immigrants with cent ...

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 ...

Pangenomes are collections of annotated genome sequences of multiple individuals of a species. The structural variants ...

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

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

The origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

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

A genetic “off switch” that shuts down nitrogen fixation when soil nitrate levels are high has been identified by a global ...

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