It even survives the winter by living in the roots of cereal crops like wheat. Farmers sound the alarm over rapid spread of ...

New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

After 40 years of research, scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered how plants use isoprene to defend ...

In fact, the air we breathe carries traces of a quieter kind of warfare — not against people, but pests. Scientists at ...

This evolution was punctuated around 30 million years ago with the emergence of a newer, better way to photosynthesize. While plants like rice continued using an old form of photosynthesis known ...

Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.

Washington University in St. Louis. (2023, April 10). Early crop plants were more easily 'tamed'. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 04 ...

A research team has elucidated the role of polyploidy in the evolution and breeding of vegetable crops, leveraging advanced sequencing technologies to dissect the genetic and epigenetic nuances of ...

“The importance of the two crops, their evolutionary proximity, and their functional differences present an opportunity for comparative analysis of cellular evolution in plants,” the team ...

Her work with early indigenous North American crops shows that some wild plants respond quickly to clearing, ... /Life sciences/Plant sciences/Plant genetics/ Plant evolution ...