Plants survive cold by adjusting at cellular level. Scientists discovered that the PORCUPINE protein helps plants adapt to ...

Researchers may have unlocked the key to reducing farmers' fertilizer use on key crops like cereals and legumes. The team ...

Applied since the 1930s to accelerate the process of developing and selecting new valuable agronomic traits, mutation breeding uses a plant’s own genetic make-up, mimicking the natural process of ...

The next step in mutation breeding is to detect which plants have indeed produced the desired new traits. With recent breakthroughs in detection technologies we help Member States screen plants more ...

Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in which the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right).

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...

Plants deficient in MDHAR6 will contribute to the remediation of TNT-contaminated land. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 4, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS.

Potatoes, tomatoes and aubergines all belong to one of the largest groups of plants in the world. Many members of this genus are important crops, so scientists are trying to understand their complex ...

Chinese researchers have revealed the genetic basis of key agronomic and metabolic traits in tea plants, shedding light ...