A research team has reviewed emerging technologies that enable precise genome editing in plants without integrating foreign ...

Insects that feed on starch can find veritable feasts in corn, pea, and bean crops or warehouses. It is no coincidence that the ancestors of these commercial plants developed α-amylase inhibitor ...

Spearhead Bio founder and chief science officer Keith Slotkin stands in a greenhouse. Slotkin's company is spinning out of research he's performed as a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth ...

For millions of years, fireflies have relied on a precise chemical ballet to signal for mates in the summer dusk. Meanwhile, ...

The ancient trick of grafting one plant onto another could find a very modern use – enabling gene editing of plants that are very difficult or impossible to edit by other means. “It is still at the ...