genetics, plant biology

Researchers edited several tree genes to improve suitability and sustainability in the pulp and paper industry.

Silverthorne shaped the development of many NSF programs driving innovation in plant biology and agriculture. 

The largest waterlily species in the world was incorrectly classified for more than 170 years.

Whole genome sequences reveal multiple domestications of this agriculturally important tree and may hold the secrets to producing the sweet fruit year round.

The first reference-quality genome for this grass species could aid managers in understanding and eradicating this highly invasive plant.

A study finds that plants sharing the same growth medium can exchange microRNAs that silence genes in the recipient, suggesting the nucleic acids may act as signaling molecules.

Phylogenomics data place the enigmatic plankton in the middle of the algal family tree, despite their apparent lack of plastids—an organelle characteristic of all other algae.

Whether the galls that aphids make on witch hazel leaves are red or green is associated with a gene expressed in the insects’ salivary glands.

The University of California, Davis, professor is a pioneer in teasing apart the changes in gene expression that drive root development.

An analysis suggests that DNA cribbed from soil microbes enabled plants’ ancestors to colonize a terrestrial environment.

The European Union says no thanks.

An entrepreneurial attitude helped this Vienna-based researcher begin to unravel the complex receptor network that Arabidopsis uses to develop and defend itself.

Researchers used the genome sequence of Artemisia annua to boost the plant’s production of artemisinin.

Among this year’s winners are a geneticist who revealed how plants respond to shade and a group of physicists who mapped the universe’s background radiation.

Scientists perform plant-genome modifications on crops without using plasmids.

Will the public swallow science’s best solution to one of the most dangerous wheat pathogens on the planet?

See how a ruinous fungus that attacks wheat wreaks its damage.

Weird and wonderful, plant DNA is challenging preconceptions about the evolution of life, including our own species.

Two papers on plant immunity have been retracted, and questions remain about others with similar results. 

A new Facebook game called Fraxinus hopes to crowdsource the solution to protecting the common ash tree from a devastating fungus.