Farmers also use plants’ genetic flexibility to mash up different varieties to produce useful hybrids. Wheat, for example, has three separate pairs of chromosomes because three types were ...

When an altered form of a virus is injected into a banana sapling, the virus' genetic material quickly becomes a permanent part of the plant's cells ... products. For example, Australian ...

"Nearly 200 years later, these plants are still revealing important ... for making the red pigment in ripe fruits, for example. Other specific genetic variations resulted in more extreme ...

It's an example that illustrates the theory ... heterosis will take some of the guess work out of plant breeding. "If you understand the genetics, you don't have to make random crosses of ...

Fortunately, plants can adapt remarkably well to diverse environments and climates: Arabidopsis thaliana, for example ... provides new insight into the genetic underpinnings of plant climate ...

for example, the plants will rely most on those alleles that will protect them. The variability of the environmental forces acting on the plants seems to lead to greater genetic heterogeneity. “As a ...

Genetics-based research could help identify ... but also other organisms that influence plant communities. For example, changing conditions may increase pest and pathogen outbreaks or allow ...

For example, synthetic TALE-TFs with chimeric ... Among these, the centromere is the most intriguing and poorly understood genetic element in plants, considering its large size (owing to the ...

Brooks Parish's research into invasive lantana species will be recognized as 'Best Dissertation of the Year' on Tuesday, May ...

The plant’s rewired genetics echo its bizarre biology ... an evolutionary biologist also at Harvard. For example, the plant has bloated its genome with extraneous DNA, while most parasites ...