Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Across the globe, soil compaction is becoming an ever more serious challenge. Heavy vehicles and machinery in modern ...

Plants have developed an extraordinary ability to synthesize a diverse array of secondary metabolites. These compounds are ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics -meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes get expressed in ...

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Farmers traditionally need to sterilize corn by removing male tassels of the plant to prevent self-pollination, but RHS1 ...

India continues to face an alarming rise in air- and water-borne diseases, driven by rapid urbanization, population growth, ...