Background Geminiviruses cause damaging diseases in several important crop species.
However, limited progress has been made in developing crop varieties resistant to these highly …

Our modern understanding of diel cell regulation in plants stems from foundational work in
the late 1990s that analysed the dynamics of selected genes and mutants in Arabidopsis …

Early career researchers (ECRs) are important stakeholders leading efforts to catalyze systemic
change in research culture and practice. Here, we summarize the outputs from a virtual …

Crop diversification required to meet demands for food security and industrial use is often
challenged by breeding time and amenability of varieties to genome modification. Cassava is …

Circular DNA is ubiquitous in nature in the form of plasmids, circular DNA viruses, and
extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) in eukaryotes. Sequencing of such molecules is …

The need to protect public health during the current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated
conference cancellations on an unprecedented scale. As the scientific community adapts to …

Data from a 2012 study of more than 4,000 published papers show that scientific literature as
a whole is trending towards more positivity. The study’s author, Daniele Fanelli, found that …

Similar to the age-old reviewer request for quantitative PCR validation of RNA-sequencing
data, nearly every researcher who uses proteomics technologies has at one time or another …

Data-dependent acquisition (DDA) methods are the current standard for quantitative proteomics
in many biological systems. However, DDA preferentially measures highly abundant …

Hydraulic fracturing extracts oil and gas through the injection of water and proppants into
subterranean formations. These injected fluids mix with the host rock formation and return to …