In a greenhouse on a narrow mesa top at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I’m working with a research team studying the role of the soil microbiome in how maize grows and tolerates drought. As the ...

The plant world has some downright amazing oddities, from the carnivorous to the overly odorous. Here are just a few you probably won’t find in many backyard gardens. Let’s lead off with a classic: ...

In the intricate architecture of plant tissues, beauty often emerges from chaos, according to new research from Cornell researchers. Findings from a recent study show how randomness and growth ...

Every species, from the apex predator down to the smallest plant and fungi, plays a specific role in the ecosystem that they are native to. However, when a non-native species is introduced to an ...

During the record-breaking heat of summer 2023, some Texans put their hopes of rainfall in the flowering of a silvery-gray shrub. An evergreen native to West Texas, South Texas, and the Edwards ...

In the summer of 2011, paleontologist and science writer Riley Black was on a mission. Walking through the Montana desert, she was on the lookout for a Tyrannosaurus rex. But that day, she wasn’t ...

SALISBURY — A Salisbury plant shop is spreading its seeds via a new mobile bus shop. Plant World owner Kailey Geller explained that the bus is already making a big difference. “Being able to have the ...

Did a Mississippi man grow the world's tallest pepper plant? Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, worked to cross-pollinate specific ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we ...

A toxic tour of the high-security facility with more than a hundred plants that could kill you. “Look, don’t touch” is the motto at Alnwick’s poison garden in Northumberland, unless you’re a ...