Biologists have uncovered a surprising connection between the way plants grow and how they defend themselves against ...

Many U.S. forests are privately owned, particularly in the Eastern and North Central parts of the country. This makes control ...

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

Chennai: Researchers from The Madura College and Madras Christian College discovered a new plant species, Manjolai argyreia ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

A researcher from Kobe University has discovered the function of the structure that gave rise to the name of a fungus-eating ...

It's spring in Geneva when the secretary general of the cantonal parliament sees the first leaf on the city's official horse ...

Crop diversity enhances resilience to climate change, pests, and diseases, as well as being of cultural value. However, ...

It was on one of his regular hikes in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing that botanist Mu Xianyun came across a tiny ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...

By amplifying production of strigolactones, the researchers now have the ability to study these scarce and mysterious plant molecules in much greater depth than before. The new study, published in ...

“Until now, researchers have seldom considered the possibility that plants utilize far-red light for photosynthesis,” says WUR PhD candidate Tinko Jans. That is because previous experiments with ...