Video Lecture: Recent Advances in Plant Genomics

In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn, researchers solved an almost six-decades-old mystery with a finding that may have implications for plant breeding in the future.

The people who hold the most extreme views opposing genetically modified foods think they know most about GMO food science, but actually know the least.

In research that could lead to better bioinsecticides to protect forests and orchards, scientists have sequenced the genomes of the European gypsy moth (GM) and its even more destructive cousin, the Asian gypsy moth (AGM).