Epigenetic variation, like genetic variation, can be inherited and influence traits across generations. However, epigenetic ...

A breakthrough method for analyzing the DNA of centuries-old plant samples has given scientists an edge in combating the ...

Camouflage is a common defensive strategy among animals. By modifying their coloration and patterning, animals evade ...

The Growing Threat to Plant Genetic Diversity Plant genetic resources encompass ... rare and threatened species have already ...

The genetic variation that is obtained from the biodiversity within plants’ genetic resources helps address many problems in plant breeding. The basic aims of plant breeding are to improve crop ...

From the perspective of a plant or animal breeder ... While specific environmental variance is determined by the variation within replicated genetic lines, to obtain an estimate of general ...

This variation is heritable (i.e ... (e.g., as a consequence of pollen transfer among plants). In the absence of natural selection and genetic drift, gene flow leads to genetic homogeneity ...

SYDNEY, April 8 (Xinhua) -- A breakthrough DNA analysis technique is giving scientists a powerful new tool to combat invasive plants, Australia's Monash University said on Tuesday.

A research team led by Andrea Eveland, PhD, associate member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has uncovered key ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

FUZHOU -- Chinese researchers have revealed the genetic basis of key agronomic and metabolic traits in tea plants ... a comprehensive genome-wide genetic variation map was constructed, said ...