This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences′ Colloquium on the Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years after Stebbins. The articles appearing ...

A new perspective highlights why plant traits should be built into photosynthetic efficiency models to improve estimates of global vegetation productivity. Instead of relying mainly on climate ...

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Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.

Plant cells host a variety of organelles segregated into distinct functional groups. Among those organelles, the nucleus, ...

David Medvigy, Gangsheng Wang, Qing Zhu, William J. Riley, Annette M. Trierweiler, Bonnie G. Waring, Xiangtao Xu and Jennifer S. Powers Censuses of tropical forest plots reveal large variation in ...

Specialized metabolites form a cornerstone of plant defensive and adaptive strategies, particularly in response to abiotic stress. Recent research has ...