12+ hour, 40+ min ago   (79+ words) Plants cannot run from their enemies, so they have evolved an extraordinary arsenal of molecular sentinels that detect invading pathogens and launch defences within minutes. Yet this vigilance comes at a price: every burst of immune activity diverts energy, nutrients…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (347+ words) eurekalert.org A chromosome-level genome of Chinese spiraea reveals how the rose family conserved and remodeled a major route for producing salicylic acid, a hormone central to plant immunity and environmental stress responses. By combining genome assembly, comparative genomics, transcriptome…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (314+ words) | Newswise Newswise GAP-free broccoli genome reveals the gene behind purple buds Broccoli is valued for vitamins, fiber, sulforaphane and anthocyanins, pigments that contribute to both nutritional properties and colors ranging from green to deep purple. Yet the crop’s highly repetitive…...

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6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (59+ words) Deep inside plant genomes lies a family of small proteins so structurally rigid that they survive boiling, so chemically versatile that they can both shield cells from oxidative damage and, in some contexts, promote it, and so evolutionarily ancient that…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (101+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists fight one of agriculture’s most elusive classes of pathogens, researchers in Japan have discovered that short, synthetic strands of DNA can do something remarkable: when applied alongside the potato spindle tuber viroid,…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (854+ words) In a finding that is sending ripples through the plant science community, researchers have created the first mutants defective in the Arg/N-degron protein degradation pathway in a major crop species, and the results defy the expectations built over nearly…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (48+ words) Overexpression and RNA interference of PsFwC9 candidate gene Psat4g213640 in hairy roots. EurekAlert! Overexpression and RNA interference of PsFwC9 candidate gene Psat4g213640 in hairy roots. Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release A single gene change turns susceptible peas…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (105+ words) phylogenetic conflict Bioengineer.org You are the science news desk of a major English-language science magazine Complete the task immediately Never ask the reader what to do, never offer editing options, and never request a target journal or preferred style…...