Molecular evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei says Darwin never proved natural selection is the driving force of evolution — because it isn't. In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of ...

Millets have quietly fed humanity for thousands of years, thriving on dry, marginal land where rice and wheat would wither.

A plant geneticist and computational biologist teamed up to decipher the unpredictability of natural and engineered mutations in tomatoes. They discovered some combinations of mutations behave as ...

Newswise — For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we’ve bred and cherry-picked tomatoes with our preferred traits.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists created a collection of over 40 tomato strains with natural and engineered mutations that affected fruit size. The strains were grown over several years and ...