A plant uses a rare scent to guide its pollinator to male flowers first and to female flowers later, finds a study led by ...

How AI foundation models trained on DNA could transform plant biology ...

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 million years ago, which was long before there were any plants around. This ...

Nicotiana benthamiana plants in a lab at UC Davis. Plants form new branches when a hormone called strigolactone breaks down. UC Davis plant biologists have now defined the enzymes that break down ...

August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in ...

An international team of researchers, including the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Plant Biology (IBMCP, a joint centre ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a plant reproduction biologist at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction, which led to a method for ...

Asteraceae presents one of the most diverse and intricate reproductive systems among flowering plants. The family is typified by its composite inflorescences, which combine both ray and disc florets ...

For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally might be contributing to air pollution in an unexpected way. While they may ...

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space drove the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could ...

The Missouri Southern State University Biology Department celebrated the opening of the Sam Gibson Memorial Herbarium, a ...

Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science report engineering a single tobacco plant to produce five ...