3+ hour, 13+ min ago  (236+ words) Maize is one of the world's most important food and feed crops, but modern varieties often contain relatively low levels of seed protein. This is partly because, during thousands of years of domestication and breeding, protein content was not a…...

1+ year, 2+ week ago  (312+ words) Max Planck researchers uncover how DNA repair mechanisms protect plant genomes from unwanted gene insertions, revealing a key control over endosymbiotic gene transfer in plants. Rapid DNA Repair Keeps Genome Stable In a new study, Enrique Gonzalez-Duran and Ralph Bock…...