A recent study is the first to look at where chemicals in plastic end up after being broken down in a natural system—a yellow mealworm's gut, in this case
Since rice is so important to feeding a large portion of the world's population, the identification of genes that enhance grain yield and composition is much desired
Even though rice was the first crop to be fully sequenced, scientists have only documented a few of the genetic changes that made rice into a staple food for more than half the world’s population