Light doesn’t just help plants grow—it may also quietly hold them back. Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism where light strengthens the “glue” between a plant’s outer skin and its inner ...

A team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists are looking to exploit a biological weakness shared by many plant-feeding ...

In 2011, The Scientist featured Bergmann’s early work on stomata development. She now uses new omics tools to explore the ...

Drought significantly reduces the reproductive success of bumblebee colonies, according to a new study conducted by a ...

Thorns in different plant species have always been an interesting subject for botanists. Be it rose plants or cactus, they ...

Fish living downstream of wastewater treatment plants are accumulating antidepressants, opioids and other drugs of abuse in ...

Experience the journey of a cactus from a tiny seed to a robust plant over 385 days in this captivating time-lapse video.

A research team has uncovered how auxin helps prepare floral nectaries for later nectar release in Platycodon grandiflorus, showing that external auxin treatment triggers strong starch buildup in ...

A research team has delivered one of the most comprehensive molecular portraits yet of Anthurium, a globally prized ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell genes for foraging, while farmers' olfactory receptors evolved alongside ...

Strategic collaboration expands protein technology footprint across Central and South America;Magdalena advances its ...

Strategic collaboration expands protein technology footprint across Central and South America; Magdalena advances its ...