Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

During their daily quest for survival, plants need to strike a careful balance between growth and defence. Both functions are vital for their successful reproduction, however, most plants are not able ...

Current climate models overstate the rate of nitrogen fixation, a natural process that helps remove atmospheric carbon ...

Researchers have uncovered the role of the growth-related transcription factor, HBI1, in the growth–defense trade-off seen in plants As plants are unable to escape from stressful conditions, they must ...

Plants grow in two directions: the shoots of plants grow toward the light to make the best use of it, and the roots grow toward the center of the earth into the soil. A team has now been able to ...

A study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has revealed a previously unknown pathway plants use to detect ...

We looked at the concept of forest regeneration using drones back in 2016 with the Droneseed initiative, now a team of Canadian science and engineering graduates is pitching a dream to plant a billion ...

Growing food in space is fraught with daunting challenges, including extreme environmental stressors like radiation and microgravity. Qingwu (William) Meng, a University of Delaware assistant ...