“If we can understand that and tweak, you know, manipulate it to optimize it, then we can make more biomass, or we can better ...

A team of researchers led by Prof. Xiao Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

Zinc (Zn) is a vital micronutrient for all living organisms, and its deficiency can adversely impact crop yield and quality.

Microplastics have practically invaded every corner of the planet, from oceans, animals, and even your morning cup of tea.

By analyzing 913,769 individual plant cell nuclei from 20 distinct tissues, researchers constructed a comprehensive life-cycle map of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant commonly used in ...

Arabidopsis thaliana grown on a Pi-deficient (-Pi) medium in transparent Petri dishes exhibits an inhibition of primary root (PR) growth. Previous work has shown that direct illumination on roots by ...

50% calcined clay granules (0.2-0.5 cm diameter) 100% calcined clay granules (0.2-0.5 cm diameter or finer granules roughly sand-particle size, <0.1 cm) Water Source Tap water, unless testing ...

2011; Trösch and Jarvis, 2011; Meinke, 2020). About 30% of Arabidopsis genes which are essential for embryogenesis, are associated with plastid development (Hsu et al., 2010; Meinke, 2020). Recently, ...

Carnegie's newest scientific division, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, is devoted to disrupting the traditional, siloed perspective on research in the life sciences and pursuing an integrated ...

To address this problem, Furci, Jain et al. studied how DNA methylation in a small weed known as Arabidopsis thaliana affects how well the plants can resist a disease known as downy mildew. Furci, ...