Scientists writing a policy forum article in the CABI One Health journal say the "plant world" needs to come out and claim ...

A Dutch crop technology company has developed a breakthrough method to create stable graft chimeras—plants that combine the ...

A University of Maryland study reveals an evolutionary trade-off that young plants face to develop disease resistance.

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

A study conducted at the Food Sciences unit of the University of Turku in Finland showed that different processing methods ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Many native plants in the U.S. cannot possibly move themselves fast enough to avoid climate-change driven extinction. If these native plants are going to have any chance of surviving into the future, ...

New work reveals that MYB74 primarily mediates this transdifferentiation process, which occurs in three stages and balances plant protection and growth in an effective manner. The discovery that ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin.

The Green Science Alliance has set a goal of replacing chemical products with those derived from plants and natural biomass.