A study has identified a wheat nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) gene pair, RXL and Pm5e, that confers ...

Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex than a worm that is used precisely for its simplicity. For ...

The plant-editing system uses mRNA to avoid the risk that foreign DNA could be left behind and create unwanted mutations.

Gene-edited crops may help adaptation to climate change The centre, funded primarily by the British government, operates on ...

Following an international search, Professor Cristóbal Uauy has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre.

Animation provided to FOX31's Shaul Turner by Wheat Ridge shows how continuous flow intersections will shift left-turn traffic across Wadsworth Boulevard in a special lane that moves toward the next ...

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...

Agriculture is Montana’s biggest industry, and along with staples like beef and wheat, another crop has taken root—pulses.

Scientists developed MEDI, a method to estimate dietary intake from food DNA in human stool, offering a more accurate ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Polyploidy – or whole-genome duplication – is a common feature of plant genomes, including many of the plants we eat, such as wheat and potato. A diploid species (such as humans) inherits one copy of ...

The Plant and Animal Genomics conference recently held in San Diego showcased the ways that rapidly advancing technologies can be used in the crop and livestock sectors ...