A distinctive photosynthetic machinery characterizes a unicellular organism present in algal blooms. What are the cellular mechanisms within a single-celled marine algae species responsible for…
A basic premise of how plants grow is that shoots grow up and roots grow down. A new study, published in Plant Physiology, a leading…
Quinoa and similar highly resilient plants have unique balloon-like structures known as ‘bladders’ on their surface. For 127 years, it was assumed these bladders helped…
Scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Michigan conducted a comprehensive analysis of the genome of a drought-tolerant plant. Certain plant species possess the ability…
An international team is now one step closer to explaining a central observation. Charles Darwin has had a greater influence on science than most. Though…
A team of researchers from the University of Freiburg have discovered how the plant hormone auxin is transported within the cell and how this signaling…
Plant cells are under tremendous pressure. To prevent themselves from bursting, plants had to come up with something unique: According to scientists from the Max…
Researchers at Yale and the University of California-Riverside recently identified a key similarity in the way water oxidation occurs in green plants and bacteria during…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology reveal how flowers use scent and nectar to manipulate pollinators and herbivores. Some pollinators not only…
Scientists at Cornell University believe that the Scarecrow gene — the first gene discovered to control Kranz anatomy, which leads to more efficient photosynthesis —…
New research indicates that leaf growth may not be as complicated as it seems. When comparing species to species, shorter trees exhibit a greater variety…