A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A plant's success may depend on how well the three sets of genetic instructions it carries in its cells cooperate, according to a new study led by plant scientists at Penn State. In an analysis of the ...

The evolution of land plants is rooted in profound genomic innovations that enabled the transition from aquatic algae to the vast diversity of modern terrestrial flora. Comparative phylogenomic ...

A mouse experiment has revealed that one parent’s epigenetic methylation pattern can rewrite the matching gene inherited from ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human activity has caused population crashes carry long-lasting genetic traces of ...