Humans have appreciated the beauty of flowers for centuries. Yet, flowers aren't just aesthetically pleasing. They also play ...

Human life depends on plants and crop production, with seeds serving as the primary source of nutrition for both humans and livestock. Currently, three ...

June 11, 2024 — Using tools of modern genetics, plant biochemists have produced ... 2024 — A CABBI research team has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to optimize leaf angle in sugarcane ...

Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman and his colleagues are exploring how non-coding DNA segments, known as ...

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on January 23, 2025, that it is reinstating its legacy ...

Humans have appreciated the beauty of flowers for centuries. Yet, flowers aren't just aesthetically pleasing. They also play a crucial role in plant ...

Scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) have succeeded for the first time in stably and precisely inserting large gene segments into the DNA of higher plants very efficiently.

Because they don’t have the option of domesticating the groundcherry over thousands of years of selective breeding, as agriculturists did with tomato plants, the researchers are using CRISPR-Cas9 gene ...

After that, the next step in CRISPR gene editing is usually to alter that ... There were ways to edit the genomes of some plants and animals before the CRISPR method was unveiled in 2012 but ...

Gene editing gives scientists “a fast way of creating new varieties of plants,” he says. CRISPR-based editing fulfills another important purpose. Academic scientists, in particular ...