Tag: maize
For Our Daily Bread, Thank Planetary Fine-Tuning
The existence of progenitor food crops (edible plants) on Earth was a necessary starting point for the availability of our food.
Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses
Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there.
Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils.
Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial
As technology mimics nature, at what point might future investigators be unsure about natural versus intelligent causes?
Getting to the Roots of Design
Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends.