WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

The scientists took some lessons from evolution to experiment with how best to speed up the adaptation process for varieties ...

A flowering plant might not be able to tell how many fingers you’re holding up, but it can tell whether it’s light or dark ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Thermotolerance, or the ability of a plant to withstand extreme temperatures, could be a promising way to confront climate ...

In a world first that challenges what we thought we knew about biology, scientists have successfully engineered animal cells ...

Plant ARC will include a number of labs run by Biology Department staff with varying research focuses, with the overarching goal of testing plant responses to climate change.

Resource competition is an important factor affecting the invasion success of alien plants, and environmental factors ...

The study of plants shows that they release organic acids through their roots when they need nutrients. It also reveals that when they have to activate these mechanisms of “food” intake, they make ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

The Department of Biology hosted Detlef Weigel, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and member of the ...

Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help ...