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 ...
Tag: crop breeding
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 ...
Scientists Map Wheat Genes That Help Crops Endure Devastating Aphid Attacks
A genome-wide association study of 640 wheat accessions has identified six aphid-tolerant lines, 110 associated SNP loci, and six candidate ...
Bacterial Polymer-Boosted Gene Helps Cotton Survive Drought Through Hormone Signaling
Chinese researchers have identified the cotton gene GhJAZ8 as a key positive regulator of drought tolerance that mediates the protective ...
Hidden Genetic Brake Discovered That Controls How Tomatoes Survive Extreme Heat
Researchers have discovered that the SlASIL2 protein suppresses tomato heat tolerance by repressing heat shock protein genes, while its interaction ...
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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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