genetics, plant biology, genetics & genomics

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Two papers on plant immunity have been retracted, and questions remain about others with similar results. 

Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.