A plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops.

Thallus growth stage affects community-wide capacity for carbon metabolism in the alpine heath lichen Ochrolechia frigida

Abstract. Pericarp color is a key trait selected during rice domestication. Although most modern cultivars have a white pericarp, ancestral rice likely had

Proposed model for the stepwise evolution of DELLA functions in the green lineage.

Alternative polyadenylation (APA) tunes mRNA tail length. Profiling a rice pan-genome population under normal and salt conditions revealed the population-level APA landscape and the 3′aQTL map. It do...

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

New rice varieties give hope that farmers can overcome the climate emergency and a warmer future that threatens harvests