Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his research Thursday on cotton genomes and polyploidy in his presentation “Genes, ...

A wave of AI foundation models built on plant DNA sequences is giving researchers new tools to annotate genomes, predict gene function, and measure crop traits faster than traditional methods allow.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome doubling, is one of evolution's most powerful forces in plants, yet its real-world consequences ...

Centromeres act as the control centers of chromosomes, ensuring accurate genetic inheritance during cell division, yet they ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Hybrid plants and animals have complicated genomes. A biologist has discovered a way to reveal their parent species. If you've ever kept a garden, you're probably familiar with hybrids, from ...

Background: Ancient events in plant evolution have left behind large, duplicated regions in their genomes. New discovery: Salk Institute scientists found that deleting these large blocks of DNA can ...

Next-generation organellar genomics : potentials and pitfalls of high-throughput technologies for molecular evolutionary studies and plant systematics / Susann Wicke & Gerald M. Schneeweiss -- Utility ...

A study has shown that different plant species tackle the same evolutionary hurdle in different ways, and the findings may give insight into aggressive forms of cancer. Whole genome duplication (WGD) ...

A long-standing mystery in plant evolution has now been brought into sharper focus. Using chromosome-specific painting, researchers traced how ...