Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S.

Researchers have revealed a previously unknown way plants shape their growth in response to light—a breakthrough that could ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found limited available study data and inconsistent results. Researchers cite ongoing need to ...

Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings -- including Darwin's theory of evolution -- have emerged from the study of ...

Scientists have discovered a novel biochemical mechanism explaining how immune proteins defend plants against invading microorganisms. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding ...

Kids at a Flagstaff, Arizona, elementary school have been through a lot since 2019: the pandemic, and then wildfires and a big flood. Teachers are using horticulture therapy to teach them resilience.

A general-purpose detoxification enzyme system, known as the mixed-function oxidase (MFO) system, apparently protects generalist herbivores from defensive plant allelochemics. Previous studies limited ...