Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

Researchers have edited plant mitochondrial DNA for the first time, which could lead to a more secure food supply. Nuclear DNA was first edited in the early 1970s, chloroplast DNA was first edited ...

Plant cells contain two repair pathways: nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) and homology-directed repair (HDR). "In plants, NHEJ is the dominant repair pathway at most cell stages," says KAUST ...

Plant cells are armored with a stiff cell wall, so “my image of a plant cell was the cytoplasm sitting in a cage, and nobody goes anywhere,” Maliga said. The genetic evidence for transfers posed a ...

A bug acquired the DNA of a toxic plant, and now it’s running rampant. By Chris Smith. Published Mar 26th, ... Whether it’s a single-cell organism or a multi-cell being, ...

Each time a cell replicates, about 20 base pairs are lost from the telomere, or shoelace cap. We can lose even more -- 50 to 100 base pairs per cell division -- when our bodies are in oxidative ...

And so, from there, then the bacterium's little piece of DNA, the T-DNA is inserted into the plant cell's DNA, and it codes for hormones and other proteins that will make the plant cells replicate.

Science has identified in the plant kingdom the “missing link” of cellular immortality between human and single-celled animals, according to a new study led by scientists from Arizona State ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. ... A mysterious shred of DNA. Starting in the late 1990s, Zehr was confronted with a puzzle.