Agricultural genetics is the applied study of the effects of genetic variation and selection used to propagate valuable heritable trait combinations in crop plants and farm animals. The discipline ...

Shaik's focused on a group of 66 accepted species of daisies, growing in the Cape Province of her native South Africa. The daisies are well known, with the first species described in 1753 ...

Your DNA may predict more about you than the way you look. According to the genetic theory of aging, your genes (as well as mutations in those genes) are responsible for how long you'll live. Here's ...

A poppy display in a church on Bodmin Moor featuring red, white, purple and black flowers is highlighting what the different colours mean in commemorating people who fought and died in conflicts ...

But how did all the amazingly coloured different bird species arise ... Although scientists have known about these different pigments for some time, understanding the biochemical and genetic basis ...

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Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

which evolved through duplication events that provide plants with additional copies of genetic information. Using a common model plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, Zhong and her ...

Now, the ancient golden-coloured superfood is making a splash on social media and entering non-desi homes at such a rapid rate that the North American butter and ghee market value is expected to ...

They say the concerns which led to genetic testing being abandoned in 1999 remain, “and are amplified by the vastly increased number of younger athletes” it is proposed would be tested under ...

Genetic data from nature is used in a wide range of products from nutrient-enriched rice to stone washed denim jeans distressed using enzymes derived from microbes. The deal comes after countries ...

Fancy coloured diamonds have always been somewhat of an uncommon pick for jewellery – particularly engagement rings, and one big reason for that is their high pricing, a result of their rarity. They, ...