Earlham Institute
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Plants have circadian clocks; knowing how they ‘tick’ could optimize crops for diverse growing conditions
It's widely understood that humans have a circadian clock. When we travel long distances, things get knocked out of kilter ...
Newly discovered ‘gene conversion’ mechanism could lead to high-yielding wheat
When it comes to breeding better wheat varieties....we seek to introduce desirable genes that increase yield, [but] these can come ...
Cell free proteins? Unraveling the mysteries of the plant circadian clock
The basic unit of life is the cell; tiny, fatty, self-replicating bubbles that have adapted to fill almost every environment ...
New sequencing technique will make cloning genes for disease resistance in plants easier
[The] constant evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens, whereby the organisms causing disease in plants are mutating to avoid plant ...
