Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

cordata to understand the biosynthetic pathways of its alkaloids and uncover the plant's evolutionary history. Researchers at Hunan Agricultural University have made strides in botanical genomics ...

Bacterial DNA isolated from a 120-year-old preserved plant cutting helped reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in ...

We apply genomics, genetics, and cell biology to understand the processes of plant genome dynamics, and exploit genome structural knowledge to develop tools and know-how for plant breeding. We are ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

Nikolai Vavilov’s story has stuck with Longjiang Fan ever since he learned about the Soviet plant biologist during his undergraduate ... a pioneering company in the field of spatial genomics. Biotium, ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens, understanding the plant’s immune response is of ...

This Grand Challenge consortium focuses on performing high-impact fundamental research on plants, primary production and management of crop plants and trees, and on translating this knowledge into ...

Unlike many plants, hornworts have not experienced whole-genome duplication (where an organism’s entire genetic material is duplicated). This absence of duplication has resulted in stable ...