Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at UC Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how plants ...

Why the Open Source Seed Initiative wants to promote sharing rather than restricting access to the seeds that we grow.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome doubling, is one of evolution's most powerful forces in plants, yet its real-world consequences ...

Thorns in different plant species have always been an interesting subject for botanists. Be it rose plants or cactus, they ...

August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in ...

Innovative plant breeding programmes using safe and proven nuclear techniques are vital for enhancing food security and sustainable agriculture. For nearly 60 years, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of ...

Why do they do that? Chaos is full of aberrations, mutations, singularities, anomalies and a whole thesaurus of similar words this summer, and it has been for several years. I first noted it one ...