If you built a potato-powered clock as a child, you know plants can generate electricity. But scientists are now developing sophisticated methods to harness this power on a much larger scale. The ...

Plant domestication is the process of adapting plants to human use by selecting specific traits. The selection process often involves the modification of some components of the plant reproductive ...

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Scientists have taken a close look at what happens on the molecular level when DNA is inserted into the genome of a plant. They determined the genetic sequence and epigenetic features of plants that ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the think-tank that’s under the U.S. Department of Defense, recently announced that it’s working on a new project that could change how pertinent ...

Competition in the electric power generation market demands that power plants operate efficiently and generate the maximum amount of power for which they were designed consistently and safely. In ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Government regulators can try to halt construction projects at power plants if they think the companies didn’t properly calculate whether the changes would increase air ...

A joint venture of Fluor (NYSE: FLR), BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has secured a potential 30-month, $850M contract modification to continue decontaminating ...

A silencing signal in plants with an RNA specificity determinant moves through plasmodesmata and the phloem. To identify the mobile RNA, we grafted Arabidopsis thaliana shoots to roots that would be a ...