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Venkatesan Sundaresan, a plant reproduction biologist at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction, which led to a method for ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

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Photo Caption: Chemical 6220480 induces the formation of tonoplast aggregates. A team of biologists from the University of California, Riverside has used chemical genomics to identify novel compounds ...

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that require less water, making them potentially more resilient to climate change.

Keiko Torii received the prize in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the field. Keiko Torii, professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the ...

Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, Walter S. Leal and Richard Michelmore have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Three professors from the University of California, Davis, have been elected ...