“It tends to have bigger root mass, like all perennials, which enables a plant to die off in the winter and resprout in the spring,” said Betsy Trana, who started studying silphium about 10 ...

It could ultimately make a product akin to sunflower oil, since “silphium is basically a perennialized sunflower,” said Katie Russell, the manager and research scientist at the Southwestern Colorado ...

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A genetic regulator of tomato sweetness has been identified through comparison of wild and domesticated varieties of the plant. Genetically engineering tomatoes to alter this gene increases sugar ...

Plant biotechnology can be defined as the introduction of desirable traits into plants through genetic modification. Genomic and pangenomic data are yielding insights into the evolution of plant ...