“Amazing” – Giant Sequoias Are Thriving in the UK
A new study, led by UCL scientists in collaboration with experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, reveals that giant sequoia trees, when introduced to…
A new study, led by UCL scientists in collaboration with experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, reveals that giant sequoia trees, when introduced to…
Ecological theory and experience tells us that plants on meadows and pastures across Denmark should be dispersing heavier seeds. But they are doing the exact…
The oldest fossilized forest ever discovered on Earth, dating back 390 million years, has been located within the towering sandstone cliffs of the Devon and…
Research provides new insights into how cells in plants coordinate their responses. A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published a…
The mysteries of photosynthesis have been unveiled at the atomic level, providing significant new insights into this plant super-power that transformed the Earth into a…
Plant genomics has come a long way since Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) helped sequence the first plant genome. But engineering the perfect crop is…
The rapidly expanding aquatic fern possesses the nutritional profile necessary to act as a crucial food source in post-disaster scenarios and could be relevant now….
Researchers from Hannover and Göttingen have successfully created three-dimensional visualizations of chloroplasts’ copying machines. For the survival of life on Earth, the process where plants…
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…
Spruce, pine, fir, and additional varieties of trees dominate the chilly expanses of territory that stretch across North America, northern Europe, and Russia, forming a…
Recent research reveals that plants employ their internal circadian rhythms to adapt to fluctuations in water availability and salt levels, presenting a novel strategy for…
Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered a method to decrease the levels of a carcinogen generated during the frying of tubers that have been…
In the fossil record, it’s common to find trees preserved merely as trunks, lacking any foliage that reveals their canopy structure or overall shape. However,…
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that tiny external structures within the wax coating of blueberries are responsible for their blue color. This…
OK A research team at Göttingen University is leading an investigation into the emergence of multicellularity. Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have…
Plant biologists have discovered that a unique species of tree fern, exclusive to Panama, has the ability to regenerate its deceased leaf fronds into root-like…
A recent study published in Nature Plants by Chao Daiyin’s team at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Chinese Academy of…
Discovery brings nearly dead plants back to life. Scientists have been aware of a specific organelle in plant cells for more than a hundred years….