Isla Miller

Nowadays, single cultivation occupies the dominant position of arable land, and large areas of land are occupied by single, promising fine varieties with high yield. However, arable land growing only...

What is the first GM crop in the world? Was it developed by scientists in a laboratory? You might not have imagined that the first GM crop was born under natural conditions thousands of years...

Researchers have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive key plant immune responses. All of the features of these compounds are small messengers customized by factories to open key defense...

Photosynthesis is one of the most important chemical reactions, not only for plants, but also for the entire world. The impact of photosynthesis and its importance should not be underestimated...

Judging by the variety of sodas, candies and baked goods sold around the world, it's clear that people love their sweet tooth. But consuming too much white sugar or artificial sweeteners can lead to...

Recently, new progress has been made in the cloning and evolution of cold tolerance genes at the booting stage of rice completed by the Institute of Grain Making, Hubei Academy of Agricultural...

Xu Cao's research group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper titled "A two-in-one breeding strategy boosts rapid utilization of wild...

Pear is a typical self-incompatible species with a high degree of genomic heterozygosity, and the cycle of selecting and breeding new varieties by traditional hybridization methods is long and the...

Recently, academician Liu Yaoguang's team from College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, The State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical...

A new study identifies the genetic basis behind the adaptation strategies used by plants to cope with the harsh natural environment. These adaptation strategies include enriching the growth-promoting...

Plants are constantly attacked by bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. When a plant senses a microbial invasion, fundamental changes occur in the chemical soup of proteins inside its cells, the...

Every organism needs manganese as an essential nutrient. For example, in plants, it plays an important role in the decomposition of water into oxygen and hydrogen during photosynthesis. A team of...

As a member of the central dogma, RNA plays a crucial role in the transmission of genetic information. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers have found that RNA not only hides in cells, they can be...

Recently, Liu Shengyi, a researcher at the Institute of Oil Materials, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Yang Qingyong, a professor at the School of Information, Huazhong Agricultural...

The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance has prompted researchers to search everywhere for new compounds. This week, a European multinational team reported the discovery of a new antifungal...