Plant Breeding – Botany with Parul

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Functional Genomics in Model and Crop Plants: Unlocking the Genetic Code for Sustainable Agriculture

Elevated CO₂ and Crop Nutrition: Are We Trading Yield for Quality?

Photosynthetic Acclimation to Climate Change: CO₂, Light, and Temperature Interplay

Live-Cell Imaging Techniques in Plant Developmental Biology

The Leaf Energy Balance Equation: Radiation, Transpiration, and Cooling

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Engineering Resilient Crops: From Lab Bench to Farmer’s Field

PARUL SHARMA
October 3, 2025

How do discoveries in growth chambers and labs transform into crops that can survive drought, heat, salinity, and disease in real fields? The journey from molecular insights to farmer adoption is long but it is also one of the most…

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Seeing the Unseen: How High-Throughput Phenotyping is Transforming Plant Science

PARUL SHARMA
August 15, 2025

For generations, plant scientists studied crops using simple tools rulers to measure plant height, notebooks for recording leaf shapes, and visual scoring for spotting diseases. While these methods gave us valuable knowledge, they were slow, time-consuming, and limited to a…

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Phenomics and High Throughput Tools for Nutritional Traits: A New Era in Plant Nutrition Research

PARUL SHARMA
August 13, 2025

In plant science there has always been a quiet but critical bottleneck: measuring traits accurately and quickly enough to match the pace of genetic and environmental research. While sequencing technologies have leapt ahead, allowing us to read plant genomes with…

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Recent Advances in Plant Science

CRISPR Beyond Gene Editing: Innovative Applications in Agriculture

PARUL SHARMA
November 8, 2024

The discovery of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) revolutionized genetic science, primarily known for its role in gene editing. By utilizing the CRISPR-Cas9 system, scientists can precisely edit genes, allowing modifications in DNA sequences that can confer desired…