UC Riverside researchers have identified a mechanism that allows plants to rapidly slow growth in response to extreme ...

Imagine that plants could tell us exactly when they're stressed, infected, or being eaten by insects, by lighting up. A new ...

Plant biology at Miami University is greater than the sum of faculty and staff in the Department of Biology. There are researchers that involve plants in their research in many other departments ...

The Missouri Southern State University Biology Department celebrated the opening of the Sam Gibson Memorial Herbarium, a ...

Nicotiana benthamiana plants in a lab at UC Davis. Plants form new branches when a hormone called strigolactone breaks down. UC Davis plant biologists have now defined the enzymes that break down ...

The Penn Biology Department recently launched the Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center to research methods of enhancing plant performance in the face of climate change. Led by DiMaura Professor of ...

New research has found when plant leaves physically touch each other, they seem to form a biological signalling network to warn each other about the upcoming stress. This can boost their resilience to ...

One strange marsh plant can keep itself near room temperature even in freezing weather. Here’s the biology behind its ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

The MSU Plant Biology Teaching Conservatory and Greenhouse is a facility designed to showcase a wide botanical collection to ...

Plant roots can drill down into the soil, new work has shown. While it happens too slowly for us to see, time-lapse photography that captured one image every fifteen minutes over a period of days has ...

For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally might be contributing to air pollution in an unexpected way. While they may ...