Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions.

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

Madalyn Shires, SDSU Extension Plant Pathology Specialist, shares what corn and soybean diseases have been on the rise in ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Southern corn rust is generally considered a “tropical disease,” but there were unusually widespread reports of the fungus ...

Under the crippled reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, in spaces once assumed to be sterile and lifeless, scientists are finding ...

However, the team that named it hold hopes with recent progress that, one day, its designation could be ironic, if its future as a living species is restored.In the ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields and ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Severely abnormal plant growth caused by mutations in the CLV3 duplicate gene CSHL postdoc Iacopo Gentile has devised a new system for identifying redundant genes and predicting how certain genetic ...

KIT researchers succeeded for the first time in reducing the number of chromosomes in a plant using the CRISPR/Cas method – surprisingly without affecting its growth The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors ...

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