Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint ...

The finding itself was accidental, which makes it all the more striking.

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a major staple food for half of the world population and a model plant to investigate evolutionary developmental biology in grasses, monocot plants that compose one of the ...

Organ development in plants mostly occurs through combinatorial activity of so-called meristems. Meristems are plant cells or tissues that give rise to new organs, similar to stem cells in human - ...

This study is led by Professor Weizhen Liu (School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China). The authors proposed a deep learning algorithm named ...

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have deciphered the genetic basis behind the formation of clustered-spikelet rice, which has been an interest of agricultural science for nearly a ...