New Water Mold Threatening Christmas Trees Discovered by Scientists Accidentally
Grown as Christmas trees, Fraser firs are highly prized for their rich color and pleasant scent as well as their ability to hold their needles….
Grown as Christmas trees, Fraser firs are highly prized for their rich color and pleasant scent as well as their ability to hold their needles….
Modularity Facilitates Rapid Adaptation of Single Floral Organs to Different Pollinators The first flowering plants originated more than 140 million years ago in the early…
Anthracnose Alert: How Bacteria Prime Fifth-Biggest Global Grain Crop Against Deadly Fungus Anthracnose of Sorghum bicolor devastates crops of the drought- and heat-resistant cereal worldwide….
Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences Describe 71 New Species in 2019 From geckos to goblin spiders, flowering plants, and Mediterranean ants—spanning five continents…
A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep, and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a sustainable farm operates…
An international team of researchers led by the University of Leeds have revealed for the first time that Amazon forests with the greatest evolutionary diversity…
Although nitrogen is essential for all living organisms — it makes up 3% of the human body — and comprises 78% of Earth’s atmosphere, it’s…
New University of Arizona research investigates what proportion of the world’s land plants are exceedingly rare, where they’re found and how location might put them…
While a mention of the British movie and music star is missing in its description, the species — named Idris elba — might prove to…
A recently published study, completed by researchers from the University of Helsinki together with Dr. Katerina Machacova, a visiting scholar, demonstrates that boreal forests of…
A new global assessment shows that human impacts have greatly reduced plant-fungus symbioses, which play a key role in sequestering carbon in soils. Restoring these…
In the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa, conditions can be difficult for crops. Plants need to have short growing seasons, survive on poor soils,…
Extinct species rediscovered in Winterhoek mountains, South Africa, after 200 years. Last seen in 1804, psoralea cataracta was rediscovered by Brian du Preez, a Ph.D….
A team of Russian researchers from Tyumen State University together with foreign colleagues studied the cases of plant extinction in world biodiversity hotspots and coldspots….
The frostier the marijuana flower, the more potent the cannabis: Advanced microscopy reveals internal structures of cannabis biochemical factories. Cannabis flowers with the most mushroom-shaped…
UC Riverside-led team’s discovery keeps plants plump and offers hope for crops despite drought. A University of California Riverside-led team has created a chemical to…
Plants are evolutionary champions, dominating Earth’s ecosystems for more than a billion years and making the planet habitable for countless other life forms, including us….
There is increasing interest around the world in using timber as a lighter, more sustainable construction alternative to steel and concrete. While wood has been…