Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Researchers discovered that soil microbes in Kansas carry drought “memories” that affect how plants grow and survive. Native plants showed stronger responses to these microbial legacies than crops ...

Taiwan's agriculture ministry said that gene sequencing confirmed the African swine fever strain found at a Taichung pig farm ...

Canada could benefit from looking at how Argentina and others have approached gene editing in livestock and its effect on ...

Bayer remains a major partner for Ginkgo’s expanded agricultural biologicals platform, which includes the company’s Agriculture Biologicals Research & Development site in West Sacramento. The ...

If a similar mechanism occurs in bTB-infected cattle, it could explain why some infected animals go undetected with the current tests. If key immune genes are epigenetically silenced, those animals ...

A lthough still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using ...

A research team has successfully engineered a japonica rice variety using CRISPR/Cas9 to simultaneously optimize plant ...