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

Siobhan Brady, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at the University of California, Davis, has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. The ...

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

A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female ...

According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for key ...

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 ...

In the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the plant biologist Elizabeth Hénaff asked Cocioba for help with a project she was working on: designing a morning glory flower with the Games’ blue ...

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.

Engineers and plant scientists worked together to improve a basic tool of plant research. The result is more efficient and ...

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