Duckweed is the fastest-growing flowering plant, but new knowledge of duckweed genetics discovered by Adelaide University researchers could lead to even faster growing rates. The research team, led by ...

Regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Switzerland is set to return to the ballot box. A popular initiative titled “For food without genetically modified organisms” was submitted to th ...

Peiyang Li, Ph.D., is the new Texas A&M AgriLife Research livestock air quality and agricultural engineer in Canyon ...

Study reveals that this breed shares a continuous genetic lineage with goats that inhabited Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.

Six professors from the University of California San Diego have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of ...

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality.

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Scientists have long sought to understand why some plants are fragrant powerhouses while others remain subtle. Now, a ...

Humans have been shaping life for thousands of years through farming, breeding, and selective cultivation. But with modern tools like CRISPR, we can now directly edit DNA itself—rewriting the very ...

Agriculture faces unprecedented challenges from environmental pressures and increasing demand for food production. As global ...

Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human activity has caused population crashes carry long-lasting genetic traces of ...