A new review in Botanical Studies examines how flowering time genes, plant hormones, gene editing and AI-driven greenhouse ...

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

Researchers identified a dominant AP2 transcription factor gene whose promoter insertion drives anthocyanin buildup in purple ...

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 ...

A recent study has unveiled how plants and bacteria exchange genes to boost plant health and development. The team discovered 75 genes that were transferred between small, fast-growing plants ...

Newswise — Transcription factors are central to plant biology because they switch genes on and off in response to internal developmental programs and external stress. Among them, NF-Y factors are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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