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

Researchers fine-mapped and functionally validated CauYL, a magnesium chelatase H subunit gene essential for chlorophyll accumulation and normal leaf coloration in cauliflower.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...