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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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

In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's ...

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 ...

The consortium will align their research with the mission to enable a sustainable human presence beyond Earth.