Just ask the threecorner milkvetch. The rare plant is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.

Shallow dishes crowded with tiny, drought-resistant plants in shades of green, red and purple are pretty much all most people ...

UAE-based indoor farming system grows plants with 98% less water, no soil ...

A destructive plant pathogen has long puzzled scientists with its ability to move swiftly through crops and cause sudden, ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from plant identification apps, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is relatively easy to grow, and who doesn't want to grow it? It's hard to beat those vibrant purple flowers on slender stalks with their heavenly aroma and variety of ...

Anyone seeing a white jacaranda (Jacaranda puberula), also known as caroba, blooming in the sandbank forest might assume that the leafy tree could not survive in such sandy soil. They would be right.

Sacrificial microbes are key to plants that thrive in sulfur-needy soil, according to experts from Singapore. Their research has provided a fascinating look at microbe/plant relationships in the ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...