Legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts and many more have a remarkable ability: They can partner with soil ...

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at UC Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how plants ...

For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we've bred and cherry-picked tomatoes with our preferred traits. Today, ...

Land O’Lakes has been granted a patent for high throughput methods to identify combinations of genetic mutations that can enhance a specific trait in plants. The methods involve creating plant cells ...

Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads to ...

Dear Stoner: Can cannabis plants mutate? I saw a double-budded flower, and wondered if you’d ever seen anything weird on weed. Dear Cary: Cannabis plants have experienced plenty of mutations, from a ...