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

"With millions of cattle and plants now genome profiled, we can imagine what ultimate genotypes look like—with the best chunks of genome from across a population stacked into one 'ultimate ...

Scientists at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and VIVES University College have developed a new method to ...

Whole genome duplication (WGD ... experts from the University's School of Life Sciences look at how three successful polyploid plant species evolved to manage the extra DNA and whether they ...