Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

In a silent war that has raged for millions of years, plants have evolved a sophisticated chemical arsenal to fight back ...

Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...

The Penn Biology Department recently launched the Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center to research methods of enhancing plant performance in the face of climate change. Led by DiMaura Professor of ...

It’s fitting that Pamela Ronald, who would go on to be named one of the world’s 100 most influential people in biotechnology ...

Plant biology at Miami University is greater than the sum of faculty and staff in the Department of Biology. There are researchers that involve plants in their research in many other departments ...

Scientists have uncovered how tobacco plants naturally make nicotine, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for ...

Nicotiana benthamiana plants in a lab at UC Davis. Plants form new branches when a hormone called strigolactone breaks down. UC Davis plant biologists have now defined the enzymes that break down ...

Plant roots can drill down into the soil, new work has shown. While it happens too slowly for us to see, time-lapse photography that captured one image every fifteen minutes over a period of days has ...

Plant cell and molecular biology encompasses the structures, processes and signalling pathways that underpin growth, development and environmental adaptation. At the subcellular level, research ...

Plants, as the base for ecological food chains, serve as the structural and functional foundation of natural and managed systems. The study of plant science and biotechnology provides opportunity in a ...