In its native habitat, switchgrass flowered earlier when growing farther north. In experiments with diverse genetic samples, ...

You might know to steer clear of green potatoes and rhubarb leaves. That’s because they produce toxins that can make humans ...

Launched this winter, the Data-Driven Plant Science course bridges experimental biology with embedded sensing, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...

A new study from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) helps explain ...

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That’s one small stem for a plant, one giant leap for plant science. In a tiny, lab-grown garden, the first seeds ever sown in lunar dirt have sprouted. This small crop, planted in samples returned by ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded by coffee plantations. Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants that grow on other ...