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

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 ...

Fortunately, plants can adapt remarkably well to diverse environments and climates: Arabidopsis thaliana, for example ...

Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

The genetic duplicates ... CLV3 gene paralogs in the forest nightshade native to Australia, for example, resulted in plants that the researchers described as "weird, bubbly, disorganized" shapes ...

and the Second Report on the State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources, published on Wednesday, reveal concerning trends in global plant and forest diversity. For example, more than 40 percent of ...