Mushrooms, often mistaken for plants due to their appearance, belong to a completely different category of life known as fungi. While they share some genetic similarities with humans, especially in ...

The ideal crop plant is tasty and high-yielding while also being resistant to diseases and pests. But if the relevant genes are far apart on a chromosome, some of these positive traits can be lost ...

WASHINGTON – Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes, according to research published Wednesday. Long ...

An international research collaboration, including INRAE, has published the complete set of genes (pangenome) and agronomic ...

Researchers have uncovered how successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction is achieved in plants. The ...

One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are ...