Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists ...

Another way of looking at this is that there was a disconnect, at an intermediate stage, between our understanding of plant genetics and a plant's characteristics. Scientists first sequenced corn ...

Given the economic and environmental impact of nematode infestations, there is an urgent need for in-depth research into the genetic reprogramming these nematodes induce in their plant hosts.

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Addis Ababa, March 30, 2025 (ENA)— The genetic diversity of the world’s plants and forests is under threat, new reports published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ...

Forest and woody plant species face tremendous pressures from biotic and abiotic factors, closely linked to apparent temperature increases. Trees, for example, are long-lived organisms with no means ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

The world is full of tips and tricks on how to live longer—some say it’s about eating clean, others swear by cutting stress.

To camouflage themselves on different plants, two forms of this mimic insect bear different patterns on their backs.