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January 12, 2018

Northern corn leaf blight genes identified in new study

Midwestern corn growers know the symptoms of northern corn leaf blight all too well: greenish-gray lesions on the leaves that can add up to major yield […]
January 11, 2018

Solving Darwin's 'abominable mystery': How flowering plants conquered the world

Researchers have found that flowering plants have small cells relative to other major plant groups, made possible by a greatly reduced genome size, and this may […]
January 11, 2018

Researchers map druggable genomic targets in evolving malaria parasite

Researchers have used whole genome analyses and chemogenetics to identify new drug targets and resistance genes in 262 parasite cell lines of Plasmodium falciparum — protozoan […]
January 11, 2018

The circadian clock sets the pace of plant growth

Researchers have discovered that the members of a protein family from the plant internal clock act sequentially to limit the plant growth until the end of […]