Flower development and sex determination in cucurbits represent a finely tuned interplay between hormonal regulation, transcriptional networks and genetic diversity. Ethylene emerges as a pivotal ...

Research suggests that we may have only begun to scratch the surface on the number of variations present in the genetic codes of all living organisms. Crack open a biology textbook and you will find a ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...