For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, ...

In other words, they make numbers first compelling, then slippery, then terrifying, and then cosmic. Cor, that's a lot to put on a game about growing strawberries, but it was quite a lot to put on a ...

Summer-only warming experiments underestimate climate change effects on plants compared to year-round temperature increases.

On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They're ...

Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

FOOD ENGINEERING recently spoke to Arborea founder and CEO Julian Melchiorri, as well as Dr. Kalyan Chatakondu, global ...

But whether or not they realize it, many thousands of clones have already been produced as the cloning process has become ...

While cloning plants allows land managers to carefully select plants with the most desirable traits, Kistler noted that this mechanism can also leave crops vulnerable to diseases.

The hybrid clone, named RRII 417, according to the institute, has a vigorous growth habit and over 80% of the trees of attained tapping girth in the seventh year of planting in field trial.

The chief Scientific officer of the Plant Protection Directorate (PPD), Matthew Tabone, has told The Malta Independent on Sunday that the process of micro-propagation, that is, genetic cloning, is ...

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