Maintenance of genome integrity is an essential process in all organisms. Mechanisms avoiding the formation of DNA lesions or mutations are well described in animals because of their relevance to ...

Ensuring food security in the face of massive population growth, climate change and geopolitical conflicts is a vital challenge for agricultural scientists worldwide 1. Germplasm improvement with the ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there are things beyond the DNA sequence,” says Xiaoqi Feng, a plant geneticist at ...