In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists 'follow the water' to find places that might be hospitable. However, every home gardener knows that plants need more than water, or even sunshine. They ...

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists "follow the water" to find places that might be hospitable. However, every home gardener knows that plants need more than water, or even sunshine. They ...

Transposable elements (TEs) are the single most variable components of plant genomes. Even closely related plants can harbour widely different populations of TEs. TEs can cause a broad array of ...

In a finding that furthers our understanding of how hybridization may contribute to genome changes and the evolution of new species, researchers have found that the genomes of three sunflower species ...