Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

For the first time, a team of researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Agricultural Research Council has successfully edited the DNA of a woody crop plant in Africa by making precise ...

Bengaluru: Scientist PV Shivaprasad wants to toughen up our crops. They’re falling prey to unseasonal rains. High salinity in the soil is killing them. They’re burning in harsh summers, and are more ...

In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn State has successfully created disease-resistant cacao plants using ...

However, how these regions corresponded to specific sequences of DNA remained elusive. Plant scientists suspected that understanding this mechanism could help identify targets during disease ...

As an 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 ...

The ancient trick of grafting one plant onto another could find a very modern use – enabling gene editing of plants that are very difficult or impossible to edit by other means. “It is still at the ...

However, traditional gene delivery methods, such as Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and gene guns, are often slow, inefficient, and can damage plant tissues. These highlight the need for more ...

Gene editing tools are powering new innovation in the plant sciences world, but that brings new considerations of intellectual property and regulatory risks. Ever since powerful new gene editing tools ...

Spearhead Bio founder and chief science officer Keith Slotkin stands in a greenhouse. Slotkin's company is spinning out of research he's performed as a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth ...