As the early morning mist lifts over the plains of northern Uganda, women gather at the Pader Shea Nut and Agro-processing ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

The heavy thud against the glass window sent Krishna Bahadur Rasaili’s heart racing. Stepping outside, he saw his granary lay ...

Results prove that inversions can be generated in plants without causing further unwanted changes in the expression of genetic information.

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...

identify genome variations related to specific phenotypes using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers. Genotyping platforms like SNP-Array or sequencing-based techniques (GBS) can genotype ...

By tweaking auxin pathways, scientists might supercharge starch production in crops like rice and maize—essential staples for billions of people. "There's enormous potential here," Dr.