Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies ...

German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

A single, invasive plant species can change the structure and composition of an entire ecosystem, as is the case in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, where the introduced tree Myrica faya is assuming ...

Invasive plants (i.e. weeds) have been on the upswing lately as a threat to take over desirable plants, out-compete farm crops, and disturb the fragile health of ecosystems.

Discover how botanic gardens worldwide are striving to combat plant extinction through innovation, collaboration, and ...

Brian Larkins, an internationally recognized plant biologist and former University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrator, died at ...

The world’s botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, ...

Microbial factories provide a sustainable alternative to tree sap for producing elusive plant molecules, offering new ...

Like deadly nightshade, all parts of these four plants can be considered highly poisonous, as they contain a number of toxic ...

Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors to recognize pathogens. In a comparative analysis of 808 angiosperm genomes, we reveal that during plant adaptation to diverse special ...

An environmentally-friendly preparation of plant material from pine could serve as a substitute for petroleum-based chemicals in polyurethane foams. The innovation could lead to more environmentally ...