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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A desert native, and high school biology teacher is on a mission to connect her high school students with the beauty and ...

There may be 140 million miles between our home and the next planet over, but CR Anderson biology students are bringing the ...