August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we've bred and cherry-picked tomatoes with our preferred traits. Today, ...

Land O’Lakes has been granted a patent for high throughput methods to identify combinations of genetic mutations that can enhance a specific trait in plants. The methods involve creating plant cells ...

Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads to ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at UC Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how plants ...