Societal Impact Statement Increasing crop productivity is often proposed as a key goal for
meeting the food security demands of a growing global population. However, achieving high …

As climate change increasingly threatens agricultural production, expanding genetic
diversity in crops is an important strategy for climate resilience in many agricultural contexts …

At the heart of the underdetermination of scientific theory by evidence is the simple idea that
the evidence available to us at a given time may be insufficient to determine what beliefs we …

This paper argues that the historiography of genetics∼ 1900, the formation period of
modern science, is too narrow. It lacks attention to plant breeding. Perhaps this omission …

Abstract Two things about Gregor Mendel are common knowledge: first, that he was the
“monk in the garden” whose experiments with peas in mid-nineteenth-century Moravia …

Whereas Mendelian genetics is an important research program in the life sciences, its
school version is problematic. On the one hand, it contains stereotypical representations of …

Intelligence is a fundamental property for all life enabling an increased probability of survival
and reproduction under wild circumstances. Kingsland and Taiz (2024) think that plants are …

The research program Spit For Science was launched at Virginia Commonwealth University
(VCU) in 2011. Since then, more than 10,000 freshmen have been enrolled in the program …

Gregor Mendel's seminal publication,“Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden”(“Experiments on
Plant Hybrids”), which appeared in 1866, is regarded as one of the founding documents of …

The promises of the cancer genome sequencing project, combined with various-omics
technologies, have raised questions about the importance of cancer cytogenetic analyses. It …