Plants show similar variation, with one—the fork fern (Tmesipteris oblanceolata)—holding the record for the largest genome, ...

Although plants have made the trip to the ISS many times, the effects of spaceflight on plant telomeres remained a mystery until recently. Once the samples came back here to Earth, we wanted to ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Scientists have uncovered genetic variation in the unexplored DNA of the photosynthetic and energy factories of Arabidopsis plants, which plays a crucial role in the efficiency of photosynthesis ...

What does the size of a plant genome tell us about its chances of survival? As land use, climate and other anthropogenic changes alter the distribution of plants across the British Isles, can ...

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin ...

Crop plants are grown as extensive monocultures, which increases the risk of disease epidemics. Major diseases include mildew, rust, Septoria in cereals, and late blight in potato. These diseases ...

Their project, called Phytogene, harnesses the power of “biopharming” — a method that transforms plants into living drug ...

Researchers at Martin Luther University have developed groundbreaking RNA-based agents that offer high levels of protection ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Spirodela polyrhiza, an ancient duckweed species, uses a unique epigenetic mechanism to mark old transposons without DNA methylation, unlike other plants ...