No mutation in Grow a Garden will decrease the value of a crop. They can't rot, wilt, wither, or fail, so there's no way to make less than the base price on a crop, fruit, vegetable, or flower.

A single mutation in the H5N1 strain of avian influenza that is infecting cattle in the US could make it more likely to infect humans, according to a new scientific paper.

Such mutations can be detrimental to its binding to the host receptor and were followed by additional compensatory mutations to recover, or even improve, its receptor binding. Momeni said the team was ...