The UC Davis department of entomology and nematology is not the place you would normally expect to find a research scientist who is developing a completely new understanding of how ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...

The plant microbiome, consisting of diverse microbial communities associated with plant roots, leaves, and internal tissues, ...

Hot weather can be very hard on cattle, especially when humidity is high (which makes it more difficult for the animal to ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Priya Ranjan works at the intersection of computational biology and bioinformatics, focusing on plant-microbe interactions, ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

In biology and life, organisms have a basic drive to reproduce and every living thing needs energy. This is the topic for today's River Life column.

On Friday March 22, Bob Auber returned to Room 116 in Whistler Hall to stand behind a podium in front of a PowerPoint and keep an audience engaged in the same tables and chairs that he had sat in many ...

The Department of Plant Biology is one of the oldest academic units at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Under the School of Integrative Biology, this department was established in 1901, ...

Fundamentals of Pruning: (online via Zoom) 6-8 p.m. Discover how to make cuts and shape plants, why we prune, what tools should be used and learn basic plant biology. $20; greshamjapanesegarden.org.