China pioneered hybrid rice, bred from two genetically distinct parents to achieve significantly higher yields. It created ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A synopsis is provided of different expressions of whole-animal vertebrate clonality (asexual organismal-level reproduction), both in the ...

Chinese researchers have developed a clone-hybrid rice that could potentially double global output, overcoming the cost ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Research over the past two decades shows that both recombination and clonality are likely to contribute to the reproduction of all fungi. This ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A fungal disease that poses a serious threat to cacao plants - the source of chocolate - reproduces clonally, Purdue University researchers find. The fungus Moniliophthora ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Cloning human beings for the purpose of reproduction is medically unsafe and should be banned, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded Friday. The scientific report ...

A panel convened by the National Research Council said Friday that Congress should pass a federal law prohibiting scientists from using cloning technologies to create a child. Noting that the Senate ...

UC Davis research finds that cabernet sauvignon grape still carries a kind of gene memory of its parents. (Getty) About 400 years ago, a cross between cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc gave birth to ...