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 ...

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

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

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

Summer-only warming experiments underestimate climate change effects on plants compared to year-round temperature increases.