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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Plant molecular biologists go looking for the genetics of poplar root growth in low-nitrogen soil and wind up with a model for genetic interaction. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email.

Linnean Professor of Biology and Biochemistry Bruce Kohorn has co-authored several new articles that deepen our understanding of how plant cells stick to one another. Jacob Dexter-Meldrum ’20 and ...

Blake Meyers, a leading plant biologist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, will present UD’s 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the life sciences. Jefferson Lecture: Plant biologist ...

Katie Murphy is a plant biologist. She researches corn and tobacco plants at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She’s also the host of “Real Time Science,” a ...

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 ...

Olivier Van Aken, a plant biologist at Lund University, told Gizmodo that there are genome-wide changes in the arabidopsis plant even when it is just sprayed with water.