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

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't stop him and his colleagues.

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

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

Napoca, Romania, have discovered a plant that has been living for over 60,000 years in the Carpathians, making it one of the ...