plant biology, agriculture, genetics & genomics

The FDA recently cleared the way for marketing of the genetically modified product. Texas A&M’s Keerti Rathore speaks with The Scientist about why and how it was developed.

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.

Plantings of non-GM refuges counter the development of resistance.

Tweaks to a transformation protocol in 1986 cemented the little plant's mighty role in plant genetics research.

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

Understanding the genetics of stem cell population maintenance in plants producing jumbo tomatoes could help scientists generate more-massive fruits.

A genetic analysis of ancient and modern maize clarifies the crop’s checkered domestication history.

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.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Researchers identify thousands of plant genes activated by the gaseous hormone ethylene, which influences ripening, pathogen defense, growth regulation, and more.