As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of their prickles entirely ...

Genetically modified horticulture plants represent a dynamic intersection of modern biotechnology and agricultural practice, aimed at addressing challenges in food security, nutritional quality and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported on Monday. Sign up here. Researchers at ...

Living Carbon, a biotechnology company, hopes its seedlings can help manage climate change. But wider use of its trees may be elusive. By Gabriel Popkin Photographs by Audra Melton On Monday, in a low ...

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Vol. 445, No. 1/2, Part I: Special Issue Quantitative and Mechanistic Insights into the Key Process in the Rhizodeposited Carbon Stabilization, Transformation and Utilization of Carbon, Nitrogen and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. researchers have successfully expressed the precursor protein of insulin in lettuce and tobacco plants. Moreover, feeding these genetically modified plants to mice ...

Researchers from Penn State have identified a protein that modifies the cellular machinery responsible for producing cellulose — an integral component of plant cell walls that is an important source ...