Plants
Science
Plants use hormone to fight fungi and insect attacks
Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. Understanding the systems-level actions of transcriptional responses to hormones provides insight into how...
Science
Scientists mapped around 18,000 of the proteins in a plant model
Plants are essential for life and are incredibly diverse organisms with unique molecular capabilities. Each cell of an organism...
Science
New discovery on plant cell expansion could prove Biology textbooks wrong
The current textbook model for plant cell expansion suggests that the shape and growth of plant cells rely on increased fluidic pressure,...
Science
NASA’s ECOSTRESS can see when plants wake up
When the mission team analyzes the data, they gain new insight into how plants behave throughout the course of a day.
Science
Shedding light on the earliest events of seed germination
Thiol redox switches regulate how plant seeds use their stored energy reserves.
Invention
Accelerating the development of new plant varieties
New methods that will make it significantly faster to produce gene-edited plants.
Lifestyle
Potted plants don’t actually improve indoor air quality
Plants can help spruce up a home or office space, but claims about their ability to improve the air quality are vastly overstated.
Lifestyle
Spending time in nature improves children’s confidence
Four out of five children say they feel more confident in themselves after spending time participating in outdoor activities.
Science
Scientists identified the genes that first enabled plants to grow leaves
The study explains how a 450-million years ago a switch enabled plants to delay reproduction and grow leaves, shoots, and buds.