A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...

Using gene editing to generate plants with parts that were more accessible for robots, the researchers enabled the breeding of new plant generations much more quickly than using manual methods. The ...

Despite theoretical expectations of balanced 1:1 sex ratios between females and males, many dioecious plant species exhibit sex ratio distortions. A recent study in persimmon shows how this can be ...