New research has shed light on how plants precisely control their growth and development, revealing that seemingly similar molecular components fulfill surprisingly different jobs.

Associate professor Margaret Worthington supervised the project to identify the genetic pinpoints that could pave the way for breeders to speed up development of thornless varieties of blackberries.

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

Many plants, and a few other organisms, can expedite diversification even further by doubling their number of chromosomes.

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...

When evaluating the best telomere supplement for longevity, it's crucial to assess the ingredients, not just the label.

Scientists are getting closer to solving the mystery of parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, in the flowerpot snake — a tiny, sightless reptile whose entire species is female. In a study published last ...

Xiao Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a new way in which temperature can influence the fate of plant cells by ...