Bamboo tissue has become a staple of eco aisles, marketed as a quick swap that lets shoppers keep their habits while cutting ...

Climate change also alters nitrogen in soils and plants, shaping food quality, water safety, and pollution risks worldwide.

A look inside the D.C. facility that’s building the “shovels and picks” for plant tissue culturing and teaching hobbyists how to grow their own plants in test tubes.

Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process ...

Researchers have successfully uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial cellulose patches stimulate the regeneration of plant wounds. The regeneration process requires the activation of ...

Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...

A group of researchers in Japan have made quite the breakthrough. According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, these scientists have created solar-powered ...

Effective hydrophobic barriers were essential for plants to survive on land, yet how these barriers became specialized across ...