“The opportunities I had as an aspiring researcher are gone. The path to a better life for kids in Sacramento is slipping away.”

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced a new policy that will dramatically change the way the United States funds medical research.

A deleterious mutation in the tomato transcription factor SSP2 was enriched during domestication. Repairing the deleterious mutation in cultivated tomato by base editing leads to compact growth and ea...

Key message Hybridization barriers in Brassicaceae play a pivotal role in governing reproductive success and maintaining speciation. In this perspective, we highlight recent advances revealing the int...

Key message Induction of parthenogenesis (embryo formation from unfertilized egg cells) by embryogenic transcription factors is associated with twin formation at high frequencies, and involves two dis...

Pollen function is critical for successful plant reproduction and crop productivity and it is important to develop accessible methods to quantitatively analyze pollen performance to enhance reproducti...

Male gametophyte development is highly sensitive to elevated temperatures. A new study identified potential drivers of reproductive thermoresilience during pollen tube growth by comparing a set of the...

Biologists found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat-tolerant, yielding insights that could help crops adapt to climate change.

Rising temperature extremes during critical reproductive periods threaten the yield of major grain and fruit crops. Flowering plant reproduction depen…

Pollen function is critical for successful plant reproduction and crop productivity and it is important to develop accessible methods to quantitatively analyze pollen performance to enhance reproducti...