Researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered a surprising mechanism that plants use to regulate their growth — one ...

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 ...

Scientists identified a gene responsible for triggering plants to develop fruits and seeds. This finding may help agriculturists bypass pollination altogether for food production, which will be ...

Plants are powerful. They have shaped the environments and atmosphere in which all organisms grow and evolve. From the earliest days of multicellular life, plants have synthesized the base nutrients ...

Postdoc Imtiyaz Khanday and Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan with cloned rice plants in a UC Davis greenhouse, December 2018. Khanday, Sundaresan and colleagues have solved the problem of propagating ...

Just like in yeast and animal cells, vacuoles in plants are responsible for breaking down unwanted cellular components. At ...

Professor Martine is the David Burpee Chair in Plant Genetics & Research, and the Director of the Manning Herbarium. I am a biodiversity scientist with a particular focus on plants, especially the ...