/ Seeds Content for UC 海角原创 en /food/news/rice-plants-reproduce-clones-seed <p>Plant biologists at the University of California, 海角原创,&nbsp;have discovered a way to make crop plants replicate through seeds as clones. The discovery, long sought by plant breeders and geneticists, could make it easier to propagate high-yielding, disease-resistant or climate-tolerant crops and make them available to the world鈥檚 farmers.&nbsp;</p> <p>The researchers published their findings Dec. 12 in the journal&nbsp;<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0785-8"><em>Nature</em></a>.&nbsp;</p> December 12, 2018 - 1:21pm Andy Fell /food/news/rice-plants-reproduce-clones-seed /news/native-wildflowers-bank-seeds-underground-endure-drought <p>Native wildflowers were surprisingly resilient during California鈥檚 most recent drought, even more so than exotic grasses. To see this resilience, UC 海角原创 researchers of a new study had to look underground to the seed bank. Native wildflowers increased the seeds they stored underground by 201 percent during the drought.</p> March 01, 2018 - 4:15pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/native-wildflowers-bank-seeds-underground-endure-drought