Plant science majors get hands-on experience with plants and agriculture that can lead to a lucrative, rewarding career and a healthier planet for us all.

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

Plant phototropism—directional growth in response to light—serves as a key adaptive mechanism, optimizing photosynthesis and ...

Ant plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, known as myrmecochory, ants are drawn to seeds that offer fatty, ...

Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but at the University of Missouri, plant biochemist Jay Thelen is using it as a ...

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

What can you do with a plant sciences degree? Graduates from the plant sciences program have gone on to pursue a wide range of careers, including various positions in agricultural enterprises, farming ...

Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge ...

Earn your Master’s or PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Wyoming. Small class sizes, state-of-the-art facilities, competitive stipends.

Engineers and plant scientists worked together to improve a basic tool of plant research. The result is more efficient and ...