Biologist Alex Harkess at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has won a five-year, $1.6 million National Science Foundation career grant for research to create new plant-based industries in ...

A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...

The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) is a German research institution focused on plant science, particularly in the areas of genetics, genomics, and crop improvement.

KIT researchers succeeded for the first time in reducing the number of chromosomes in a plant using the CRISPR/Cas method – surprisingly without affecting its growth The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors ...

Left: Arabidopsis thaliana with healthy centromere division. Right: A mutant version of Arabidopsis with uneven centromere division. Credit: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Left: Arabidopsis thaliana ...

In addition, they identified several highly chromosome-specific satellite repeats (e.g., CentM51, CentM515, CentM287), further underscoring the dynamic and mosaic nature of centromere evolution.

Chromosome satellite for both species (Chinese chestnut on the left, American chestnut on the right). Like all chromosomes, these are made of chromatin – a mix of DNA molecules and proteins. There are ...

Chromosomes are thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells. Each chromosome is made of protein and a single molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Passed from ...

Synthetic biology is already rewriting life. In late 2023, scientists revealed yeast cells with half their genetic blueprint replaced by artificial DNA. It was a “watershed” moment in an 18-year-long ...