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

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 ...

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

Researchers from Université Laval in Quebec have mapped key genetic markers responsible for cannabinoid production in ...

Japanese orchids reproduce by self-fertilization with flowers that never open, challenging evolutionary theories.

Tomatoes and eggplants might soon look and taste very different, thanks to a major scientific breakthrough. A team of ...

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' are the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species, also providing evidence of eight instances in which ...

Limited information is available regarding the genetic inheritance of ornamental traits in peppers (Capsicum spp.), which is crucial for enhancing these plants for ornamental purposes in breeding ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic region responsible for blackberries’ deploying of a type of pointy self-protection: ...