"It is unexpected and exciting." Scientists make revolutionary breakthrough in farming with unexpected gene mutation: 'Our ...

Genetic changes that can increase the yield of one crop don’t necessarily work for others, even if they’re close relatives.

With recent breakthroughs in detection technologies we help Member States screen plants more efficiently and speed up the development of mutant lines for commercial use. The detection of novel induced ...

Irradiation can be used to induce mutations in plants with the goal to produce varieties that display improved product quality, have higher yields and yield stability, greater resilience to climate ...

Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number of ways: somatic mutations can contribute to the germ line more easily as flowers develop at the end of branches composed of somatic cells ...

The plant-editing system uses mRNA to avoid the risk that foreign DNA could be left behind and create unwanted mutations.

CSHL Professor Zachary Lippman and postdoc Amy Lanctot have begun to uncover how DNA sequences known as cis-regulatory fragments control flowering in distantly related plant species. Their findings ...

New research by John Innes Centre has discovered a biological mechanism in plants could reduce the need for inorganic ...

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and ...

plant biologist Philippe Reymond and colleagues found far fewer single base-pair substitutions than expected based on known plant mutations rates and the number of cell divisions that presumed to have ...

In plants, these changes most frequently happen at transposons (also known as “jumping genes”) – pieces of DNA that can move within the genome. Transposons are usually inactive because they can cause ...