Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An experiment aimed at learning more about how plants grow in space will be aboard a National Aeronautics and Space Administration launch in early August from the Cape Canaveral ...

PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case ?) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.