Modern diagnostic methods allow growers to detect pathogens earlier and identify disease pressure with far greater precision ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

An international project has uncovered millions of ancient DNA 'switches' that have been regulating plant genes for up to 300 million years - a ...

Most DNA extraction protocols were originally developed for manual pipetting and later adapted for liquid handlers. In ...