The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

A University of Michigan study finds that plants growing in nutrient-rich soil may be more likely to defend themselves ...

Researchers have decoded the chromosome-level genome of Houttuynia cordata, an important East Asian medicinal plant known for ...

A new study in Nature Communications, led by scientists at University of California (UC) Riverside, analyzed species of tomato in the Solanaceae family, comparing populations from both eastern and ...

CSHL’s Lippman and McCandlish labs have discovered how interactions between cryptic genetic mutations can increase or decrease the number of reproductive branches on tomato plants. The scientists’ ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is particularly prevalent in plants, where it facilitates the evolution of new ...

Wild tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands are rewinding millions of years of evolution, according to a new study ... The research team confirmed this by inserting the modified enzyme into tobacco plants, ...

Evolution Running Backwards? That's What This Unlikely Organism Appears To Be Doing Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same ...