Researchers at the University of Sheffield are investigating Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT) in plants, which allows them to ...

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Controlling gene activity is important for engineering plants for improved bioenergy crops and other applications. This research developed synthetic genes that use Boolean logic gates to achieve ...

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 25, No. 4, Recent advances in design and analysis of experiments and observational studies in agriculture (December 2020), pp.

Increased vegetation growth in European mountains, driven by climate and land use changes, reduces genetic diversity of medicinal plants, as shown by a new study using satellite data and genetic ...

In a new study published in Nature Genetics, led by Charles Underwood from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, scientists established a system to generate clonal ...

Adding too much water to your plants can damage them as much as not having enough water. In the environment, plants submerged under excessive rain have limited access to light and oxygen, which ...

Angiosperms, representing nearly 90% of all plant species, dominate terrestrial ecosystems thanks in part to their ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...