Crippling a Hormone Export Route Gives Crops Immunity to Witchweed
New research shows that editing strigolactone transporter genes in sorghum and tomato can suppress parasitic weeds by up to 94 ...
Tag: crop breeding
Drought-Hardened Maize Reveals Its Molecular Survival Playbook
An integrated transcriptomic and proteomic study of two maize inbred lines has uncovered the genotype-specific gene networks, antioxidant defenses, and ...
CRISPR Multiplex Gene Editing Rewrites the Rules of Crop Breeding
A new review details how CRISPR-based multiplex genome editing is enabling breeders to stack disease resistance, yield and quality traits ...
How Virus-Host Protein Interactions Shape Plant Antiviral Defense
A comprehensive review maps how protein-protein interactions between plant viruses and their hosts drive infection and defense, and shows how ...
Drones and Attention-Powered AI Count Every Wheat Tiller From the Sky
Researchers in South Dakota combined drone multispectral imagery with an attention-enhanced deep learning model to estimate wheat tiller density with ...
Ancient Chinese Wheat Yields a Genetic Key to More Grain Per Plant
Researchers identified and validated a major chromosome 5D locus, QPTN.sicau-CEW-5D, that stably controls productive tiller number in Chinese endemic wheat ...
Sunflower Genes Could Hold the Key to Climate-Proof Crops in the World’s Driest Farmlands
A new review argues that sunflower's remarkable tolerance to combined drought, heat, salt, and pathogen stress makes it a powerful ...
New Automated Pipeline Speeds Up Gene Hunting in Crop Breeding
Researchers have developed BSArray, an automated R Shiny pipeline that turns Illumina SNP array data into mapped quantitative trait loci, ...
Scientists Pinpoint a Candidate Self-Incompatibility Locus in Sugar Beet, Revealing a Genomic Swiss Army Knife of Reproduction
Genomic sleuthing in sugar beet has uncovered a candidate S-locus on chromosome 2, complete with S-RNase genes, F-box neighbors, and ...
A Genetic Saboteur: Scientists Uncover Why Rice Surrenders to the Cold
Researchers have identified the rice transcription factor OsbHLH6 as a negative regulator that represses the cold-resilience gene OsMADS57 and disrupts ...
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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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