July 25, 2024
Jumping on the jumping gene bandwagon to speed up plant breeding - New gene editing technique lowers cost and shortens time to make desired varieties
May 21, 2021
Corn gene boosts sugar in leaves and seeds, may lead to better crops - Maize ufo1 gene responsible for creating mutant corn line
November 8, 2017
Genomic science uncovers genes that enable plants to grow more with less fertilizer - DNA analysis reveals "kingpin" genes, master regulators in networks of genes that take up the nitrogen in fertilizer
September 24, 2014
Plant-based building materials may boost energy savings - Insulation for homes of the future may be harvested from fields of kenaf, an alternative to fiberglass
High-tech harvest: Engineering agriculture's future
March 21, 2014
Building solutions for bioinformatics from the ground up
April 10, 2012
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Summer Internship program gets boost from two national foundations
March 16, 2012
Joint BBSRC and NSF 'Ideas Lab' to provide radically new approaches to producing crops with minimal input of nitrogen fertilizers
February 14, 2012
Developing hardier, weather-resistant crops - University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist searches for genes that would make a better root
October 14, 2011
Nano materials by design: no small breakthrough
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