Seedless fruits are highly valued for their superior edible quality and consumer appeal, yet the biological mechanisms that allow fruits to develop without fertilization remain poorly understood, especially in perennial fruit crops. 

Plants rely on finely tuned hormonal signaling to survive drought and salinity, yet the molecular mechanisms that integrate competing stress signals remain incompletely understood. 

Fruit color is a defining trait for both consumer preference and commercial value in strawberries, yet its genetic control is exceptionally complex due to the crop's polyploid genome. 

Blue flower coloration is not determined by pigment production alone, but also by how pigments are transported and stored inside plant cells. 

In a recent study, Dr. Chander Negi, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Texas A&M University professor Dr. Ivan Rusyn, investigated how an emerging “liver-on-a-chip” technology compares with traditional testing methods used in drug safety evaluation.

SAN ANTONIO — February 23, 2026 — Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key chemical precursors to life, could have been incorporated into Jupiter’s Galilean moons during their formation. The team’s findings have resulted in complementary studies published in The Planetary Science Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offering new insights into the potential for life in the Jovian system.

Huanglongbing (HLB) is one of the most destructive diseases threatening global citrus production, yet how citrus plants respond to the pathogen at the cellular level has remained unclear. 

A new archaeological study reveals how ancient hunter-gatherer groups lived—and survived—more than a thousand years ago in the transition zone between the Pampas and Patagonia in Argentina. The research, carried out by Martínez and colleagues (2025), focuses on the Zoko Andi 1 site (ZA1), located on the lower basin of the Colorado River, a key location for understanding the daily life of these early settlers in the south.