The work, published in the journal Plant Physiology, describes a new system called “Stomata In-Sight.” The technology addresses a persistent challenge in plant science by making it possible to track ...

Water levels, plant life, and wildlife behavior shift constantly. What looks quiet on the surface often reflects ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has posted some FAQs about the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and under the question, “How does this Act change the way FDA regulates foods?” is this ...

Two-hundred-fifty million years ago, an insect got hungry for a midnight snack. It chewed through the wide leaf of a now-extinct gigantopterid plant, sowing rows of rounded punctures. The holes were ...

Tiny seawater algae could hold the key to crops as a source of fuel and plants that can adapt to changing climates. Tiny seawater algae could hold the key to crops as a source of fuel and plants that ...

How do plants adapt to water stress as climate change continues to increase across the globe? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

Your daffodils don't care what you have to say. They aren't uplifted by Mozart's symphonies. They don't feel pain when being pruned. These myths originally reached the mainstream with the book The ...

Plants appear to be able to make complex decisions. At least this is what scientists have concluded from their investigations on Barberry (Berberis vulgaris), which is able to abort its own seeds to ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

Imagine walking through a field of crops and hearing high-pitched clicks emanating from the plants. While this may sound like science fiction, it’s a reality that scientists are now studying. These ...