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

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

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

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 ...

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.

In a recent study published in Current Biology, a ... Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

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.

Lost biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed ... senior research leader in seed and stress biology at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London.