They support most life on Earth because they sit at the base of almost every food chain and pump out the oxygen we need to ...

How different plants manage water stress may reshape climate models. Scientists now say soil drying isn’t one-size-fits-all.

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

Like all living organisms, plants emit frequencies of their own. Created by Joe Patitucci and Alex Tyson, PlantWave. is a device that grew out of the company Data Garden which records quartets of ...

All of this whirlwind surrounds plants. As part of a series, this week I am writing is all about plants and it is meant to inform, give ideas and tips and further your success in growing plants.

The project has had a few hiccups so far. The equipment can be finicky, Pittermann tells The Scientist, and the work was delayed for a year by the COVID-19 pandemic, when campuses closed down and it ...

Experts want to combat new species of plants that are moving around within the United States, and coming from around the ...

Plants like Arabidopsis rely on a molecule called DDM1 to pass down accurate chromosome copies to future generations. But if it's so important, why isn't Arabidopsis affected when DDM1 is lost?

The plants, which tend to absorb these metals along with other nutrients in the soil, have adapted to tolerate them. Of the species known to take in and concentrate metals, more than two-thirds do ...

The Midwest Invasive Plant Network also lists a number of other invasive honeysuckle species, all native to Eurasia. Most of them are large shrubs that grow well in the shade of tall trees.