University of Missouri researchers have created rice plants that resist bacterial blight, a devastating disease that ...

A new review synthesizes evidence that plant-associated microbes directly and indirectly reshape the biosynthesis of ...

An international study investigating why wild tomatoes are more resistant to the tomato leafminer (Phthorimaea absoluta) than ...

A genome-wide study of switchgrass identified 79 HIPP genes and found that silencing PvHIPP23 improves cadmium tolerance ...

Salicornia is a halophytic flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Here, the authors report chromosome-scale genome assemblies for six Salicornia species and reveal subgenome diversity, species ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) have developed a new way to make glowing biological reporters ...

Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation and its variation between plant species and ecotypes ...

For millennia, the golden rhizome of Coptis chinensis—known as Huanglian in traditional Chinese medicine—has been prized for its potent alkaloids that fight gastric infections and inflammation. But ...

A new study led by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, dean of the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR), has ...

Many plant species parasitize other plants by latching on and taking the nutrition their host needs to survive. But sometimes, plants steal more than nutrients; they take genes. A new study shows how ...

Scientists discovered 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences—some hundreds of millions of years old—using Conservatory, a new comparative plant genomics platform. Plant genomes often have ...

Gene editing of plants enabled the production of more nutritionally rich rice and fortified tomatoes. But these innovations have often come about only through long, painstaking work. This process ...