WashU biologists, led by Xuehua Zhong in Arts & Sciences, investigated the inner workings of DNA methylation in plants. Their ...

A flowering plant might not be able to tell how many fingers you’re holding up, but it can tell whether it’s light or dark ...

Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Plant cell biology is the study of all aspects of plant cells. It is particularly concerned with structure, growth, division, signalling, differentiation and death of plant cells. The authors ...

plants, animals and microorganisms. The requirements for the major in the biological sciences provide both a solid foundation in biology and opportunities to pursue special interests. The major ...

Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help ...

Thermotolerance, or the ability of a plant to withstand extreme temperatures, could be a promising way to confront climate ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Wilting flowers may not mean poor plant health; instead, they could be part of a smart resource-saving strategy. A study from ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...