Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is a drought‐tolerant legume of growing global importance due to its high galactomannan content—a polysaccharide widely used as a thickening and stabilising agent in ...

The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

Contributing authors from Murdoch University's Western Crop Genetics Alliance and Murdoch University's Centre for Crop and Food Innovation inspect barley. An international team of scientists from ...

AMES, Iowa – Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing varieties that are more resilient and productive. But the intricate interplay ...

The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) is a German research institution focused on plant science, particularly in the areas of genetics, genomics, and crop improvement.

Explore the contrasting acceptance of gene therapy and genetic crop modification, highlighting societal attitudes and regulatory challenges in biotechnology.

Scientists at KAUST have developed a k-mer–based genomic approach that scans crops’ DNA as tiny fragments, revealing rare ...

An international research team from Australia and China unveiled the first chromosome-scale genome of a wild barley species. The team believes its findings offer direct implications for more ...

The interplay between the genetic makeup of crops and the conditions in which they grow is difficult to untangle. A research team aims to help breeders analyze the interactions to make crops more ...