Tag: plants

Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to ...

If you see a great bustard (Otis tarda) in the wild, you’re unlikely to forget it. Massive, colorful, and impossible ...

Animals can adapt quickly to survive adverse environmental conditions. Evidence is mounting to show that plants can, too. A paper ...

Codonopsis lanceolata, more commonly referred to as “deodeok”, is  used as a medicinal herb  in South Korea. It is cultivated ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: The Devonian Period, 419 to 358 million years ago, was one of the most turbulent times in ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have successfully genetically modified a plant protein that is responsible for oil ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Invasive plants can have devastating effects on local ecologies, comparable to the effects wrought by global warming. ...

  Credit: Wenna Zheng To avoid salt in soil, plants can change their root direction and grow away from saline ...

Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well ...

Just like humans, wastewater treatment plants can get sick, due to viral attacks. Now, new research from Chalmers University of ...

Longstanding theories of how plants rely on calcium waves to respond systemically to wounding and other stresses have been given ...

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia’s fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two ...

A “hub and spoke” system enables plant cells to efficiently coordinate cellular trafficking, particularly for cellular recycling, the so-called autophagy ...

Nearly 2,000 gene banks around the world hold the genetic resources of plants, from seed to stem and more, sampled ...

Visit any of Türkiye’s regions and you will find diverse plants growing in uncultivated areas such as wetlands and woodlands: ...

An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that ...

Within the cabinets and drawers of the world’s herbaria are nearly 400 million dried plant specimens. These collections have long ...

A new study shows that we can create and/or select plants that can better recover from drought without affecting the ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In a study using lab-grown cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers specializing in aging report they have successfully ...

Milkweed plants purchased at retail nurseries across the United States were contaminated with pesticides harmful to monarch caterpillars that rely ...