High in the rainforest canopies that stretch across the South Pacific island of Fiji, an unlikely peace prevails thanks to a ...

Sucrose is a vital energy source in plants. It also drives growth and serves as an important signaling molecule during stress ...

Seeds provide most of the calories humanity eats, yet the cells that decide how big each seed becomes have remained a mystery ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

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

Plant biologist Lena Mueller said they have learned to synthesize the molecule and give plants more of it, by adding it to the soil where it’s absorbed by the roots.

Plants face simultaneous abiotic (drought, salinity, heat) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses in natural and agricultural environments, which ...

Moon habitation and missions to Mars face resupply challenges, which the Italian Moon-Rice project aims to solve with a ...

Photo by Jennifer Silverberg for Greater St. Louis, Inc. By Ginger O’Donnell for Greater St. Louis, Inc. Apr 14, 2025 Katie Murphy, Ph.D., was an undergraduate research assistant at Stanford ...

Moon-Rice project develops super-dwarf, protein-rich rice varieties for space missions and extreme Earth environments.

A federally funded analysis led by Brown University biologists found that different species of large herbivores have diets ...