WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University scientists have discovered evidence that the repressive structures that plants use to keep genes turned off is built with a potential self-destruct switch. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract • Aims This paper reviews the way optimization theory has been used in canopy models to analyse the adaptive significance of ...

Many native plants in the U.S. cannot possibly move themselves fast enough to avoid climate-change driven extinction. If these native plants are going to have any chance of surviving into the future, ...

WASHINGTON – An extensive study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has found that new technologies in genetic engineering and conventional breeding are blurring the once ...

With the intensification of global climate change and widespread soil degradation, including salinization and heavy metal pollution, abiotic stress events ...