This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2, SDG 3 and SDG 9. Plant biotechnology is undergoing a transformative era, driven by rapid advancements in molecular biology, genetic ...

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...

The technology, described in the Plant Biotechnology Journal, can also signal when beneficial plant-microbe interactions occur, helpful to plant scientists as they engineer stress-tolerant feedstock ...

Plants, as the base for ecological food chains, serve as the structural and functional foundation of natural and managed systems. The study of plant science and biotechnology provides opportunity in a ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...