How Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments created modern genetics

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...
High Plains Journal

Major NSF supports plant pathology project

University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist Richard Wilson is continuing work to unravel the mysteries behind effectors.
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6 science projects every baby boomer had to do in school

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science projects that just about everyone had to do at least once.

Crowd sensing for the environment: Citizen science and plant apps map how urbanization alters city soils and climate

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...
The Business Journals

How the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is helping African farmers — and why that’s good for St. Louis

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Africa is the world’s fastest-growing continent by ...
BioTechniques

Ethnobiotechnology in the Caribbean: sowing the seeds of sustainable agriculture and medicinal plant research

Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...