The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

The findings will be useful in creating more robust, climate change-fighting plants. Plants may burrow into the ground and stretch toward the sun, but they're ultimately stuck where they sprout ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world ... There were ways to edit the genomes of some plants and animals before the CRISPR method ...

But what will happen under climate change ... don't exist right now, plants with many of these characteristics can be bred quickly, using genetic techniques like CRISPR. Then they can be grown ...

The plant’s ... are working to change that. Because they don’t have the option of domesticating the groundcherry over thousands of years of selective breeding, as agriculturists did with tomato plants ...

reveals that the activity of this animal could accelerate the time plants usually take to establish on new land by over a ...

carbon-hungry plants using the gene-editing tool. Read the story The venture-backed startup believes kelp could be a powerful tool to combat climate change. But some scientists fear the ecological ...

The Smithsonian Institution in the 1850s recruited hundreds of citizen scientists across the nation to track when they saw plants bud or grow leaves. At the time, Florida had been a state for only six ...

The CRISPR/Cas system is one of the most promising methods for ... versus transient), and regeneration protocols to develop transgene-free, genome-edited plant lines in various Brassicaceae species.