Collaboration between the UCO's Agronomy and Genetics departments was key to sequencing the genome of this pathogen, which is responsible for losses of up to €50 million per year. Cercospora leaf spot ...

Meg Staton, left, associate professor of bioinformatics and computational genomics in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, and Scott Schlarbaum, director of the UT Tree Improvement ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases—a task once thought too ...

A closeup of a black and orange monarch butterfly on the sunlit zinnia flowers blurred background© Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock.com Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known as constraint modeling, which allows researchers to assess the degree of ...

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, one in five people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help reduce this risk and early ...

The GoE project was initiated in response to the rapidly growing use of genetic data in research and clinical applications, and the lack of a whole genome sequence (WGS) reference dataset for Europe.

The sweet potato feeds millions worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where its natural resilience to climate extremes makes it crucial for food security. But this humble root vegetable has ...

At the very beginning of autumn 2019, an international team, including the French, succeeded in deciphering the pea genome. For the average person, this means very little. After all, how complicated ...

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully decoded the DNA of the giant moa, a bird that roamed New Zealand before its extinction hundreds of years ago. This discovery, ...