A team of researchers led by Prof. Xiao Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

Inside Fiton, a greenhouse the size of a coffee table book, attempts were made to grow Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed often found in junkyards and dumps. The species had been chosen because its ...

A senior from Jamaica has earned top honors at a prestigious scientific conference for his work in plant genome research.

During Cornell's spring break in April, a group of students did something unusual: they helped a plant send a text ...

Advances in high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) platforms together with genotyping technologies have revolutionized breeding of varieties with desired traits relying on genomic prediction. Yet, we lack ...

Our group is studying the development of vascular cambium by using Arabidopsis thaliana root as a model. Vascular cambium produces xylem (wood) and phloem, and together with the cork cambium, which ...