New research from Max Planck Institute reveals how plants defend their genomes from invasion by chloroplast DNA.

Forests cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area, providing crucial benefits for both people and the environment. They protect soil and water, regulate the climate and safeguard biodiversity.

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Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Chinese researchers have developed a technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant ...

Salk Institute scientists created the most detailed cannabis genetic atlas by analyzing 193 genomes. The study reveals vast ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

A new study has revived a long-standing controversy over the evolution of living beings between the French ...

Off-world agriculture has long seemed experimental, but that could soon change thanks to a collaboration between design firm ...

Chinese research team’s investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century ‘giraffe ...

Changes to a pest's diet could slow the evolution of resistance to biopesticides, according to research from University of Stirling scientists.