The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

The scientists took some lessons from evolution to experiment with how best to speed up the adaptation process for varieties ...

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

Biologists have investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their findings could help engineer crops that are more resilient to environmental changes, like heat or drought stress.

Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help ...

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

Thermotolerance, or the ability of a plant to withstand extreme temperatures, could be a promising way to confront climate ...

Plant ARC will include a number of labs run by Biology Department staff with varying research focuses, with the overarching goal of testing plant responses to climate change.

Honey bees play a crucial role as pollinators of wild plants and important crops ... for Human and Ecosystem Health at UC San ...

Professor Meritxell Huch, a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Although his main expertise is chloroplast biology, his interest is and always was to understand plant life as a whole. Or else, as much of it as is possible. The Research Cross-Journal Editorial ...