Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of genetic variations, mutations, that affect how genes act and function. […] Read more
Plant mutation research aimed at predictability
Science Notes: More accurate breeding could result from more predictable mutations
Tweaking corn kernels with CRISPR
Science Notes: In some of the first work of its kind, researchers modified corn kernel numbers using CRISPR
Corn has changed over thousands of years from weedy plants that make ears with less than a dozen kernels to the cobs packed with hundreds of juicy kernels that we […] Read more