The researchers targeted Chromochloris zofingiensis, a single-celled green alga that has drawn commercial interest as one of the highest producers of the best lipids for biofuel production

With next-generation sequencing tools available, researchers wanted to more finely explore the banana genome with an ultimate goal of helping breeding programs produce hardier, more disease resistant bananas

Researchers now may be better equipped to help cotton farmers battle blight

This new resource will assist future research programs using genetic tools to improve crop resilience and oil production.

Study provides valuable information that can be used to breed spinach with better disease-resistance, higher yield, and better quality

University of Wisconsin–Madison botanist hopes facility will someday soon be a hub for biologists, engineers, and agronomists to collaborate on improving crops—by measuring them

The map of dog breeds, which is the largest to date, unearths new evidence that dogs traveled with humans across the Bering land bridge

Lettuce is a member of the huge Compositae family, which includes the good, the bad, and the ugly of the plant world

"This is the first study to test next generation sequencing and machine learning technologies together to estimate age from blood and saliva samples"

Multi-institutional team reports a method—called 3D genome assembly—that can create a human reference genome, entirely from scratch, for less than $10,000