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

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

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

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 uncovered by these datasets are a major asset to genetic analysis in crop plants.

A new study has made significant strides in plant genome editing by developing an A-to-K base editing system for rice and ...

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

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

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

Every living organism relies on a genetic blueprint encoded in its DNA, yet the amount of DNA - or genome size - varies ...

Using CRISPR, the popular gene-editing tool, scientists bumped up the fruit’s sugar content by 30 percent without sacrificing ...