Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain these and other prehistoric animals during the Mesozoic Era, starting 252 million years…
Researchers have discovered a protein that seals plant roots to regulate the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil, the discovery could help develop climate proof crops that require…
Imagine if humans could 'talk' to plants and warn them of approaching pest attacks or extreme weather.
A team of plant scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)…
Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at UBC's BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins -- natural plant compounds that make your…
Climate change is affecting the types of plant varieties we can cultivate, as well as how and where we can do so. A new collection of articles in the open access journal PLOS Biology…
Limited resources, another knock-on effect from the ongoing conflict, also threatened to upend the men’s carefully laid plans. While Moisienko drove around to dozens of Kyiv’s home hardware…
Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go, a Washington State University-led study has found.
In a set of experiments, individual plant cells…