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 ...

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

Agatha Martello of More Than Gardens replaces lawns with native landscapes that support wildlife and reconnect people with ...

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

High in Fiji’s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door “apartments.” ...

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 ...

Mary Helen Goldsmith. Mary Helen Goldsmith, a plant physiologist and longtime professor who helped create an undergraduate major in environmental studies at Yale, led the Marsh Botanical Garden for 16 ...