1 Department of Agricultural Science and Engineering, College of Agriculture, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, United States 2 Department of Life and Physical Sciences, Fisk University, ...

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 ...

As the global population continues to grow, innovative solutions are needed to ensure food security. With limited land and ...

Gene silencing is a negative feedback mechanism that regulates gene expression to define cell fate and also regulates metabolism and gene expression throughout the life of an organism. In plants, gene ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

In addition, genetically modified plants may someday be ... there are unknown consequences to altering the natural state of an organism through foreign gene expression. After all, such alterations ...

Recent studies show how dietary choices may affect a person's risk of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer, and cancer of ...