plant biology

Plant cryptospore fossil found in 480 million-year-old Australian rock

Discovered: Fossilized Spores Suggestive of Early Land Plants

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A Newly Found Organ for Arabidopsis

Yuan Longping wearing a longsleeve white shirt, doing an interview in a rice field.

Hybrid Rice Developer Yuan Longping Dies at 90

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Stress-Response Compound Widespread in Animals Is Found in Plants

A scanning electron micrograph of the picozoan Picomonas judraskeda

Picozoans Are Algae After All: Study

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Book Excerpt from Finding the Mother Tree

Aphid Salivary Gene May Regulate Gall Color

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Rediscovered Coffee Species Tastes Great, Tolerates Warmth: Study

Astragalus nitidiflorus inaturalist extinct plant conservation taxonomy

Seventeen “Extinct” European Plant Species Found Alive

Long-Lived Trees’ Epigenetic Mutations Serve as a Molecular Clock

Richard Staples, Dick Staples, plant pathology, rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, Cornell, Boyce Thompson Institute

Dick Staples, Plant Pathologist, Dies at 94

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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The Federal Government’s Research Innovation Lifeline Has Gone Dark

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Universe 25 Experiment

An illustration of an in vitro fertilized embryo, which researchers recently used to study maternal aneuploidy

Genetic Basis of Aneuploidy, Which Often Causes Pregnancy Loss, Revealed

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Transitioning to 3D Cell Models for Better Insights

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Human-Relevant In Vitro Models Enable Predictive Drug Discovery

Advancing Drug Discovery with Complex Human In Vitro Models

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What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of?

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus.

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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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