Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery ...

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery ...

Hidden in the jungles of Indonesia is a plant that doesn't live off of the sun, instead it gains its sustenance through ...

Aotearoa's only parasitic plant has been rediscovered in Wainuiomata, after wild populations of the species were thought to be extinct from the region for more than a century. Te pua o te Rēinga, also ...

This huge loss has been attributed to both direct and indirect damage that plant parasitic nematodes cause. For example, damage to yam by root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and the yam nematode ...

Hydnora looks like it came from another planet – but it’s very real, and very strange. This parasitic plant lives underground, has no leaves, and bursts out of the soil with a fleshy, alien-like ...

Gemma Wright (Ngāti Maniapoto) sheds a tear as she lays seeds of Pua o te Rēinga, New Zealand's only parasitic plant, in the ground at Zealandia, watched by David Mudge, plant expert ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery of this three-way ...

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspected livestock for a flesh-eating ...