The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

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

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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday announced the inauguration of a plant science establishment, the Tissue Control Laboratory and the upgrade of the Biological Control Agent (BioCon) ...

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

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

Drones can now detect subtle soybean canopy damage from dicamba at one ten-thousandth of the herbicide's label ...

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

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, ...