Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

Researchers from LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research have reconstructed the genomes of ten historic ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

NASA's SpaceX 32nd commercial resupply services mission, scheduled to lift off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in ...

Some of the most popular potato cultivars were bred many decades ago. The reason for this limited success is the complex ...

In terms of food factors that may help improve egg quality, most of the research is centered around the Mediterranean diet, ...

When the researchers looked at human data, they found the same trend. Men who had lost more Y chromosomes were more likely to ...

Both winter and spring camelina might be on the cusp of better varieties to help boost production of the oilseed in Western ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into how cells maintain the tiny end caps of chromosomes as they divide, a key process in keeping cells healthy.

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...