“The modern strawberry has about four times as much DNA as the most ancient wild strawberries,” said Vance Whitaker, a ...

A new study details the ancient origins and hybridization processes that led to modern strawberries complex genetic makeup.

An international research team led by Dr. André Marques from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Prof. Dr. Christiane ...

Polyploidy is usually achieved by several antimitotic agents such as colchicine and oryzalin that inhibit mitosis, resulting in chromosome doubling. Colchicine was used successfully to produce ...

Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical ...

Do you know the difference between an annual, biennial and perennial plant? If not, here's everything you need to know.

Beneath the forest floor lies an overlooked secret: many plants grow a second set of roots far deeper than expected sometimes ...

Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions ...

What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon’s “humongous fungus” was considered the world’s largest organism.

FOOD ENGINEERING recently spoke to Arborea founder and CEO Julian Melchiorri, as well as Dr. Kalyan Chatakondu, global ...