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 scientists took some lessons from evolution to experiment with how best to speed up the adaptation process for varieties ...

Resource competition is an important factor affecting the invasion success of alien plants, and environmental factors ...

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

Nov. 11, 2024 — Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the ...

Plant ARC will include a number of labs run by Biology Department staff with varying research focuses, with the overarching goal of testing plant responses to climate change.

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

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Honey bees play a crucial role as pollinators of wild plants and important crops ... for Human and Ecosystem Health at UC San ...

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 ...