Spaceflight presents a distinctive set of challenges for plant biology, as microgravity, cosmic radiation and limited resource availability impose conditions vastly different from those on Earth.
Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce more of what we want, and survive drought, pests, and infection. For ...
Moonyoung Kang and Hai Anh Vu examine a microwell plate containing individual cells. These cells are used for simultaneous single-cell RNA sequencing and mass spectrometry analysis. A research team at ...