Scientists discovered a stretch of DNA in both C3 plants, like wheat and soybeans, and C4 plants, like corn and sorghum, that is responsible for optimizing C4 plant photosynthesis and making them ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

Alessandro Vasciaveo, PhD, has fond memories of being introduced to computers and programming through his father’s Apple II. ...

For the first time, scientists have created animal cells that can harness sunlight for energy—a feat once thought ...

Many experts believed it couldn't be done, but researchers in Japan have successfully introduced chloroplasts into hamster cells.

On Nov. 14, The Biology Colloquium, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Botany and Integrative Biology Departments, is a ...

In a breakthrough study published in Science on Nov. 15, international researchers have identified mechanisms driving ...

Understanding how roots grow can help us develop plants that—for example—are more resistant to drought. Research by Prof.

"The plant enzyme that's key to artepillin C production had only recently been ... and does not produce alcohol, which limits ...

Producing herbal medicines on an industrial scale is challenging. However, a team of bioengineers from Kobe University has ...

A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...