If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical ...

A research team has discovered a previously unknown type of peptide that guides pollen tubes to ovules in Arabidopsis ...

Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not ...

Plants face simultaneous abiotic (drought, salinity, heat) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses in natural and agricultural ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at ...

Stock image of a plant growing (main) and music from a speaker (inset). Researchers have found that playing noise improves the growth of a soil fungus that promotes the growth of plants.

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 million years ago, which was long before there were any plants around. This ...

Established in 1921 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the N. I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry once housed the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of plant seeds, Doherty says.