New Research Reveals What Plants Need To Withstand Drought
Rising temperatures affect the plants that agriculture — and we —depend on. New research sheds light on how plants resist drought. All life forms have…
Rising temperatures affect the plants that agriculture — and we —depend on. New research sheds light on how plants resist drought. All life forms have…
Scientists analyzing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants have discovered how the first plants on Earth evolved the mechanisms used to control water…
Communities within the West’s wildland-urban interface are booming in the very places where ecosystems are most sensitive to drought, posing increasing wildfire risks in an…
Climate change is causing plants in the UK to flower a month earlier on average, which could have profound consequences for wildlife, agriculture, and gardeners….
Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known, with some 9,200 species yet to be discovered. A new study involving…
Recently published work by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, lays the foundation for new ways of thinking about pathogen evolution. “Our research highlights…
Sustainable, natural dye could solve a challenge for the food and textile industries. Plants that secrete colored nectars are part of an exclusive club. To…
Study links gene expression patterns to traits that improve drought tolerance in rice plants. For many smallholder farmers in South and Southeast Asia, rice is…
Animal-dispersed plants’ ability to keep pace with climate change reduced by 60%. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how…
Findings could lead to advances in plant breeding, human genetics. A simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according…
Beating the Odds in Mutation’s Game of Chance Discovery that plants protect their most essential genes transforms our view of evolution. Mutations of DNA do…
Research conducted at the University of Campinas in Brazil was driven by observations of fluctuations in autoluminescence caused by seed germination in cycles regulated by…
California Academy of Sciences Researchers Describe 70 New Species in 2021 In 2021, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 70 new plant and…
Radiant and flavorful, lychees were so beloved that they were domesticated not just once in ancient times, but independently in two different regions of China,…
The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they…
Thyme and oregano possess an anti-cancer compound that suppresses tumor development, but adding more to your tomato sauce isn’t enough to gain significant benefit. The…
With over 2050 known species, Begonia is one of the largest plant genera. Since most Begonias are small weeds, a Begonia taller than a human…
Scientists have found a novel way to combine two species of grass-like plant including banana, rice, and wheat, using embryonic tissue from their seeds. The…