Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an entire plant just to extract a few specific compounds is rather inefficient, ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why some plants are fragrant powerhouses while others remain subtle. Now, a ...

This study reveals that enhancing the activity of a conserved “housekeeping” gene can significantly elevate fruit nutritional and sensory traits. By increasing the expression of a tRNA-associated gene ...

Hyperuricemia (HUA) is a metabolic disease caused by purine metabolism disorder, which is an important hub for many chronic ...

Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but University of Missouri plant biochemist Jay Thelen uses it as a powerful model to explore ways to boost oil production — an important step toward creating ...

The field of plant protection is facing urgent challenges arising from the global demand for sustainable agricultural ...

A team in Taiwan has engineered a new way for plants to absorb and use carbon dioxide, potentially reshaping the fight against climate change. By inserting an extra biochemical cycle into a model ...

Producing high levels of valuable medicinal compounds in plants has long been limited by the difficulty of precisely ...

Plant cell cultures are an attractive alternative to cultivating whole plants for obtaining natural compounds, but many biosynthetic genes remain inactive under standard culture conditions. Now, ...