Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found a new contributor to antibiotic resistance: bacterial swarms that create ideal breeding grounds to evolve antibiotic resistance, even in the ...

The key appears to be maternal inheritance.

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A global database of new crop varieties developed by mutation breeding has been upgraded and expanded to include data on mutant microbial bacteria and fungi strains as well as mutant plant varieties.

Drought is the most devastating abiotic stress factor worldwide affecting crop production, severely limiting plant growth and development and reducing crop yields. It is projected to worsen with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a strange wildlife experiment has been unfolding ...