A monitoring system devised by the University of Cordoba ascertains the flowering stages of each hive, with high precision, exploiting data on bees' behavior. Beekeeping has existed for millennia, as ...

Newswise — Japanese plum is one of the world's most economically important stone fruit crops, yet its genetic improvement remains slow due to long breeding cycles, high heterozygosity, and strong ...

Auxin is the master hormone that quietly choreographs nearly every stage of a plant’s life, from the first division of an ...

Researchers at GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences - and the John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, determine that gene-regulatory ...

A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately ...

Moses’s tomatoes are now at week 11, where they are flowering and fruiting. This is a critical stage. Therefore, the farmer needs to take care of the plants to avoid or prevent flower abortion and ...

A new study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately leading to the formation of ...