Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

On a spring morning, a search for a specific species of fern leads to a discussion on ancient plant history, vascular beauty ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

Researchers from LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research have reconstructed the genomes of ten historic ...

NASA's SpaceX 32nd commercial resupply services mission, scheduled to lift off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in ...

Some of the most popular potato cultivars were bred many decades ago. The reason for this limited success is the complex ...

Both winter and spring camelina might be on the cusp of better varieties to help boost production of the oilseed in Western ...

A man’s healthiest lifestyle is one that includes plant-forward eating, moderate exercise, daily mindfulness/relaxation practice to reduce stress, positive relationships with family and friends, and ...

It was a morning in early April and Nature was playing tricks on us. The weather had been cold and raw for days, but then ...

Now is the time to apply pre-emergent herbicides to prevent weed seeds from developing and growing into mature plants in our lawns. Some of these weed seeds includes annual crabgrass and goosegrass, ...

In terms of food factors that may help improve egg quality, most of the research is centered around the Mediterranean diet, ...

Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences that protect the ends of chromosomes, which become shorter every time a cell divides and serve as markers of plant survivability. Understanding how space ...