Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Forest department officials from Thoothukudi district have sent hair and tissue samples of pigs to Advanced ...

According to Dr. Thakar, early humans took over the role once played by giant animals like sloths and mammoths, which ...

Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a medieval medical manuscript, the Tacuinum Sanitatis.

Protecting native maize diversity is one of the key arguments behind Mexico’s constitutional ban on genetically modified corn ...

Feng Qin and colleagues perform a genome-wide association study for drought tolerance in maize seedlings and find 42 candidate genes. They characterize a promoter insertion in the ZmVPP1 gene ...