A team from the University of Illinois has determined that improving a key component of soybean photosynthesis is unlikely to ...

THAT breeding is an art and not a science is an opinion frequently expressed by many who are concerned with plant and animal improvement. Whatever they have meant by art in this generalization ...

Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD from West Virginia ... histones and reversed the chromosomal segregation defect. Gernot Presting, a plant genomicist at the ...

If the stress is manageable, cells resume normal activity; if not, they self-destruct. Scientists have believed for decades this response happens as a linear chain of events: sensors in the cell ...

New insights into a ‘friendly virus’ that could pave the way for cutting edge treatments for the potentially fatal superbug C.diff have been uncovered by University of Sheffield scientists. Scientists ...

The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

The lobate shape of lymphatic endothelial cells puzzled researchers—now they’ve found it helps stabilize lymphatic capillaries against fluid pressure changes.

Mar. 25, 2025 — Exposure to antibiotics during a key developmental window in infancy can stunt growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and may boost risk of diabetes later in life, new ...

Audubon’s native plants database draws its plant data from the North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program (BONAP).

The vascular-cambium-specific transcription factor PtrSCZ1 and its homologue regulate cambium activity and affect xylem development in Populus trichocarpa ...