A team of international scientists, mainly from China and the United Kingdom, has jointly identified the genetic variants ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an indigenous and staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has an enemy: an insect called the ...

The study, titled Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel's pea genes, was led by Cheng Shifeng, a professor of the ...

A team of Chinese and international scientists has made a groundbreaking advancement in plant genetics by decoding the ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an ...

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

Background: Niche partition and traits tradeoff theory were primary strategies for plants coexistence. However, specific strategies of plants remained to be verified to guide community configuration ...