A research group led by Dr. Ryushiro Kasahara has discovered a new plant tissue essential for seed formation, which will be ...

In October, Poethig and fellow researcher Aaron Leichty — a former graduate student in Poethig’s lab — published research on ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

Some plants stay healthy even when a key nutrient drops. New research explains the root and cell tricks that help plants ...

Hybrid crop plants can retain favorable traits from generation to generation. Plants have for the first time been cloned as seeds. The research by UC Davis plant scientists and their international ...

Fascinated by plants? Enjoy research? Want to make a difference in agriculture, health, biotechnology, the environment or industry? Plant biology might be the major for you. Plants are the primary ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...

A seed is a plant embryo wrapped in a protective covering of maternal tissue. This coverage allows the seed to withstand a much wider range of environmental conditions than adult plants, such as ...