Today, these microbial partners work in the soil across millions of acres of farmland worldwide, helping farmers grow more ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at ...

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Plants face simultaneous abiotic (drought, salinity, heat) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses in natural and agricultural ...

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

NEET 2026 aspirants should strategically prioritize Biology chapters, as it constitutes 50% of the exam. Human Physiology and ...

Nanoparticles can, in theory, deliver cargo directly to a leaf’s interior and then break down safely. Scientists suspected ...

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.

O n 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 ...

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, ...