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

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Imagine a gardener, plant explorer, geneticist, and computer specialist all rolled into one job. You might call that person a steward of plant genetic resources. Plant genetic resources are any plant ...

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

(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 ...

The outcome of ITPGRFA GB 11 has a key lesson for the democratic movement. India needs a civil society independent of the ...

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 ...

Selecting corn genetics isn’t a decision to take lightly. Managing nitrogen with the same care helps protect yield potential ...

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 ...