Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

Peach (Prunus persica) is an economically important fruit, and understanding the genetic basis of its quality traits is crucial for breeding. Recent advances in genome sequencing have led to the ...

New research explores the historical shifts in mammal traits and biodiversity loss in eastern Africa. The study reveals how environmental changes disrupted mammal communities and highlights the urgent ...

Many human traits are influenced by multiple genes. Human genes can also carry slight variations in their gene sequences, which can have a wide range of effects. In some complex traits, those small ...

Their novel approach showed how mammal traits evolved with changing environments over time and revealed factors that contributed to biodiversity loss. Catherine Barzler, Senior Research Writer/Editor ...