The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans serves as a preeminent model for understanding the intricate relationship between genetic variation and phenotype. Recent advances have harnessed high-throughput ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

The genes of an organism play an important role in the development of characteristic traits. However, even the traits of genetically identical clones that grow up under the same environmental ...

1. Wood serves for mechanical support, water transport and storage. These functions are provided for by different cells with a large variation in wood anatomy among species but also within individual ...

Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

Larissa Nowak, Matthias Schleuning, Irene M. A. Bender, W. Daniel Kissling, Susanne A. Fritz, Independent variation of avian sensitivity to climate change and trait-based adaptive capacity along a ...