Silicon Gives Rice a Hidden Edge Against the Fall Armyworm, Study Finds
A new study shows that silicon accumulation in rice confers resistance to the fall armyworm by enabling a balanced transcriptional ...
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Scientists Discover a Gene That Pre-Arms Wheat Against Salt Stress
Researchers have identified the wheat gene TaSTG4B, which enhances salt tolerance by pre-arming antioxidant and photosynthetic defense pathways before stress ...
Sequencing Revolution Races to Rescue the World’s Fruits and Vegetables
A comprehensive new review argues that next-generation sequencing has transformed horticultural crop genomics, but bioinformatics capacity and functional validation, not ...
Machine Learning Meets Heritage Plums: Black Sea Varieties Reveal Striking Antioxidant Diversity
A study of fifteen local European plum varieties from Türkiye's Black Sea region documents wide variation in fruit traits and ...
Single DNA Letter May Hold the Key to Starchier, Heavier Maize Kernels
Researchers combined linkage mapping and association analysis in maize to identify the β-amylase 4 gene Zm00001d039265 and a single SNP ...
Scientists Pinpoint a Gene That Switches Off Pollen in Chinese Cabbage
Researchers in Beijing have fine mapped a novel recessive male-sterility gene, Brmy1, in Chinese cabbage and identified the ROS-generating gene ...
GraTools brings speed and simplicity to pangenome variation graph analysis
Researchers have developed GraTools, an open-source command-line tool that simplifies and accelerates the exploration and manipulation of pangenome variation graphs, ...
Scientists Uncover Shared Genetic Switches That Control How Long Sorghum Grains Fill and How Big They Get
A massive genomic study of 904 sorghum varieties reveals that grain filling duration and kernel weight share overlapping genetic controls, ...
Fungal Partners and Wild Barley: The Hidden Variability Shaping Future Salt-Tolerant Forage
Researchers in China have screened wild barley ecotypes and their Epichloë endophytes, uncovering major variation in growth, forage quality, and ...
Togo’s Hidden Yam Diversity Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing of 321 Accessions
Researchers have characterized 321 yam accessions from Togo using 121 morphological descriptors and 230,053 genome-wide SNPs, resolving species-level and fine-scale ...
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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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