Britain’s success in this field is partly down to climate. One key to growing giant veg is the avoidance of stress. That ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising strategy plants use to thrive when an essential nutrient—sulfur—is in short supply.

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit ...

Applying a daily serum that contains extracts of a tropical plant improved hair density and strand thickness in just 56 days ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in ...

Which plant hormones are critical in responding to drought conditions? How do plant hormone responses adjust to environmental ...

PUNE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC), a leading global provider of complete connection solutions, proudly announces the inauguration of its Pune Plant 2, a significant milestone in ...

BP Plc is to forgo building a biofuels plant in the Netherlands as the UK energy giant continues to focus its downstream portfolio, following a strategic pivot earlier this year to return to focusing ...

How does a plant manage to quickly adapt its growth to changing environmental conditions? A research team at the University of Freiburg led by plant physiologist Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn has ...

Delphine Farmer receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the W.M. Keck ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they ...

The new EPiC (Engineered Plants in Culture) project at UC Davis will explore technology for growing plants and plant tissues in bioreactors with minimal use of resources. The technology could be used ...