For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Discover how specific plant scents can lure lady beetles, nature's pest controllers! New research pinpoints odors that ...

For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally ...

The child of a tree that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a ginkgo tree seedling growing at Bates brings a ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

The team mainly explored the behavior of a plant called 'Arabidopsis thaliana' when it was exposed to a pest attack.

In this paper, we present a control strategy using real-time feedback combined with feasible path planning to manipulate a type of microorganism, Tetrahymena pyriformis (T. pyriformis), as a micro-bio ...

Nanoparticles can, in theory, deliver cargo directly to a leaf’s interior and then break down safely. Scientists suspected ...