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

A bug known as a whitefly received a gene from a plant, and that DNA influx completely changed ... but they suspect that an ancient virus might have been involved. That’s “an extremely rare ...

In addition, Toll-related proteins of plants recognize viruses 3. The fact that plants ... The central dogma of replication (DNA to RNA to protein) is itself under scrutiny. Some RNA viruses ...

The genome incorporation mechanism for LINE-1, the only autonomously active retrotransposon in humans, leverages the cell ...

This makes it possible to specifically modify a targeted gene in plant ... viruses and plays a key role in certain biological processes, such as cell replication or repair. Single-stranded DNA ...

which can interfere with translation of other mRNA and inhibit viral replication. siRNA spreads throughout the plant, but the survival of the plant and the virus is an ongoing battle, as both are ...

And, thanks to Kress and his colleagues, it is the first site in the world to have all 250 of its plant species barcoded. DNA barcoding, the brainchild of Canadian geneticist Paul Hebert ...

This makes it possible to specifically modify a targeted gene in plant ... viruses and plays a key role in certain biological processes, such as cell replication or repair. Single-stranded DNA ...