"The plant enzyme that's key to artepillin C production ... and does not produce alcohol, which limits cell growth. In the ...

Producing herbal medicines on an industrial scale is challenging. However, a team of bioengineers from Kobe University has ...

Herbal medicine is difficult to produce on an industrial scale. A team of Kobe University bioengineers manipulated the ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

Importantly, these imported chloroplasts displayed activity for two further days, during which time their host cells grew at an accelerated rate. This indicates that photosynthesis was indeed ...

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't stop him and his colleagues.

For the past decade, scientists have relied almost exclusively on CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing. Now, a smaller but equally efficient nuclease is here to compete.

Manipulating protein interactions using chemical compounds is revolutionizing biology because it allows researchers to influence complex processes in the target organism. In plant biology ...

The Würzburg plant scientists were right: when they inhibited calcium storage in the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell, the calcium ... signal is related to the biology of the enzymes that ...

development and cell biology at Iowa State University. Understanding the trade-off between growth and survival responses could help plant scientists put their thumb on the scale, designing crops that ...