For plants, light is an important environmental factor not only as a source of energy for photosynthesis, but also as a ...

Similar to the way DNA damage can contribute to human diseases such as cancer, it can also disrupt growth, development and ...

Scientists have discovered a protein in mosses that may have enabled the first plants to grow upward on dry land.

PlantGFM created synthetic plant DNA that tobacco cells copied into RNA, with some sequences producing detectable proteins in ...

As heat waves become more frequent, leafy vegetables face rising risks of yield loss, quality decline, and shortened ...

Transcription factors are central to plant biology because they switch genes on and off in response to internal developmental programs and external stress. Among them, NF-Y factors are known to ...

Duke researchers discovered a relationship between a plant’s genes, microbiome and autoimmunity, offering potential applications in resisting climate change and improving human gut health. The study, ...

Scientists at Zhejiang University have engineered plants that glow on their own by inserting optimized fungal genes, producing second-generation specimens, reported to be more than 20 times brighter ...

Dr Daniel Ashie Kotey, Director of the Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute, has called for dedicated and sustained ...

A mouse experiment has revealed that one parent’s epigenetic methylation pattern can rewrite the matching gene inherited from ...