NewsResearchers Solve Crucial Cold-Induced Sweetening Problem in Potato Productionby American Society of Plant BiologistsThe potato industry benefits from new tuber research that reveals the mystery behind a major production problem
NewsHow Sunflowers See the Sunby University of California - DavisNew research shows that sunflowers respond to the sun through a previously unknown mechanism
NewsGene Discovery May Help Growers Battle Grape Downy Mildewby Cornell UniversityDeveloping grapes with resistance to these diseases can help cut down the number of sprays used by growers
NewsJournal Honors Pioneering Scientist with New Seriesby American Phytopathological SocietyThe new series will present articles visionary scientists in the field of MPMI
NewsNature Is Inventive—the Same Substance Is Produced Differently by Plantsby Max Planck Institute for Chemical EcologyThe production of special plant defense compounds has evolved independently in distantly related plant families
NewsNo Pollen, No Seedsby North Carolina State UniversityMitochondrial genome editing technique yields useful traits
NewsGene That Confers Seed Tolerance to Salinity Identifiedby Instituto Gulbenkian de CienciaBiotechnology could help farmers deal with inhospitable soils
NewsThe Origin of the World’s Grapevinesby Ariel UniversityThis is some of the first evidence that perennial and annual plant domestication happened at the same time
NewsDiscovery Advances Biofuel Crop That Could Curb Dependence on Fossil Fuelby Michigan State UniversityUnderstanding a photosynthetic peculiarity of switchgrass could help realize its full potential
NewsAncestral Variation Guides Future Environmental Adaptationsby Bangor UniversityThe humble sea campion flower can show us how species adapt to changing environmental factors