Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical cues from bacterial pathogens and communicate this information to neighbors ...

For the first time, high-resolution time-lapse videos of tiny bits of living plants show how they assemble their protective cell walls, researchers report March 21 in Science Advances. The image ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...

Plastic production is increasing sharply. This has raised concerns about the effects of microplastics (typically defined as plastic particles smaller than 5 millimetres in diameter) and nanoplastics ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...