Imagine that plants could tell us exactly when they're stressed, infected, or being eaten by insects, by lighting up. A new ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered certain proteins may be the key to saving plants' lives when ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

Researchers have engineered Arabidopsis plants that emit visible light when their immune defenses switch on, creating a living sensor that tracks how plants fight pathogens in real time. The work, ...

New research has found when plant leaves physically touch each other, they seem to form a biological signalling network to warn each other about the upcoming stress. This can boost their resilience to ...

The MSU Plant Biology Teaching Conservatory and Greenhouse is a facility designed to showcase a wide botanical collection to the general public for free. Yet, few students know about the evolution ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

The American Society of Plant Biologists has announced the launch of "Teaching Tools in Plant Biology" in its high-impact journal The Plant Cell. Teaching Tools is a monthly, online-only feature of ...

A systems perspective frames the next frontier in plant sciences. Moreover, network science aids in translating the complexity of a system into a biological message and enables us to discover novel ...