Tag: plants

Genes jumping from microbes to green algae hundreds of millions of years ago might have driven the evolution of land ...

Common traits of the species vulnerable to extinction identified in new analysis of mammals, birds and plants Credit: Jacob Plumb, ...

Local and Indigenous communities warn of a significant decrease in the abundance of wild edible plants and mushrooms that negatively ...

Medicine has a broad repertoire of anaesthetics at its medication allows patients to better endure painful treatments or even sleep ...

Towards China nationally determined contribution to carbon neutrality 2060, it is necessary to consider wastewater treatment plants. This kind of ...

Scientists analysing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants have discovered how the first plants on Earth evolved the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Synergy isn’t always a good thing — take climate change and invasive plants. Credit: UF/IFAS photo by ...

After injury, plants make a trade-off between repairing damaged tissue and ramping up their defenses, according to a new study ...

Land plants absorb phosphate better when they collaborate with certain soil fungi. Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), a symbiosis with such fungi, ...

Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of “lysigenous aerenchyma,” air channels that help transfer ...

Climate change is causing plants in the UK to flower a month earlier on average, which could have profound consequences ...

Integrating renewable energy with the power grid continues to be a big challenge for the electrical grid infrastructure in the ...

As the global demand for power continues to rise, so too does the number of small merchant renewable energy plants, ...

Being common is rather unusual. It’s far more common for a species to be rare, spending its existence in small ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – New research, led by Washington State University scientists, into how viral proteins interact and can be disabled ...

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered ...

Declines in seed-dispersing animal species – upon which half of all plant species rely – have significantly reduced the ability ...

How does a developing plant shoot know how, where, and when to grow? Dividing cells need to pass messages from one another ...

HOUSTON – (Jan. 13, 2022) – In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how biodiversity ...

Plants encounter microbes all the time, in the air, water, and soil. Some cause disease, others are neutral, but a ...