Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties because the seeds are too expensive. Researchers from the University of ...

New work in Arabidopsis reveals that an embryo-derived PIPL7 peptide signals through the IKU2 receptor kinase to polarize ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

In the quiet world of plant molecular biology, few questions are as consequential as how an ordinary leaf cell can be persuaded to abandon its identity and start life over again as an embryo. A new ...