The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

The enzymes evolved differently, allowing plants to manage DNA stability and support diverse growing conditions ... This ...

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

Biologists have investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their findings could help engineer crops that are more resilient to environmental changes, like heat or drought stress.

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

“Mammals only have two major enzymes that add methyl groups in one DNA context, but plants actually have multiple ... insights about CMT2’s unique structure. The enzyme has a long, flexible ...

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants multiple ways to override instructions that are coded into their DNA.

The “selfish” B chromosomes, therefore, only become active when their existence is at stake and not for the benefit of the plant. Drive mechanisms in B ... to capitalise on the data explosion of the ...

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA -; a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA -; like some modern viruses. This is because, ...

Aug. 13, 2024 — Since its discovery by modern researchers a century ago, an ancient structure ... DNA analysis, an international team of researchers identified a collection of plants used ...