Every time the temperature drops, a cloud passes overhead, or the sun sets, a plant makes a choice: Keep its microscopic ...

APPL captures a wealth of data on plant characteristics with speed and precision, leveraging robotics, multi-modal imaging ...

Dave Weston of ORNL employs robotics, imaging, and AI at APPL to advance plant resilience research and has found a gene that ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Many native plants in the U.S. cannot possibly move themselves fast enough to avoid climate-change-driven extinction. If ...

Parasitic weeds are ruthless freeloaders, stealing nutrients from crops and devastating harvests. But what if farmers could ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Six Duke faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellowship in ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...