How Gravity Sculpts Crops: New Insights Could Reshape Maize Breeding
A comprehensive review maps the molecular machinery of plant gravitropism and predicts 69 candidate genes that could let breeders engineer ...
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Ghana’s Traditional Rice Landraces Outshine Improved Varieties in Key Minerals, Study Finds
A controlled field study in Ghana shows that traditional rice landraces Ex-Baika and Ex-Viono accumulate significantly more iron, zinc, calcium, ...
A Single DNA Letter Shapes the Soybean Leaf—and Breeders Can Now Screen for It
Researchers identified a single coding variant in the soybean gene GmJAG1 that controls leaf shape, validated it functionally, and developed ...
Scientists engineer self-arming immune receptors to give crops broad-spectrum virus resistance
Researchers have engineered autoactive NLR immune receptors with pathogen-protease-controlled tripwires, achieving complete broad-spectrum resistance to potyviruses in tobacco and soybean ...
Crop Breeding Turns to Rotation Legacies to Boost Yields and Cut Fertiliser Costs
University of Queensland researchers show that the genetics of a preceding crop can swing wheat yields by up to 45 ...
New Web Tool Turns Rice Genome Data into Instant Haplotype Maps and Breeding Markers
A new open-source web application called Hap-Browser unifies haplotype visualization, classification, and allele-specific marker design for crop genetics into a ...
Scientists Race to Stop Sesame Pods From Bursting Before Harvest
A field study in Cameroon reveals how sesame genotype and drying conditions control pod shattering, the crop's costliest hidden yield ...
AI Reads Crop Photosynthesis Pixel by Pixel in Deep Learning Leap for Farming
A multi-task deep learning framework can estimate more than a dozen crop photosynthetic traits simultaneously from hyperspectral images with record ...
Lost Genes Reveal How Wild Rice Abandoned Perennial Life
Comparative genomics of three annual-perennial pairs of Oryza species identifies 91 gene families present in all perennial species but missing ...
New Rice Gene Discovery Could Cut Fertilizer Use While Keeping Yields High
Chinese researchers have identified a novel rice locus, qNUE6, and pinpointed the nitrate transporter gene OsNRT1.2 as a positive regulator ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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