Lanthanides are a class of rare earth elements that in many countries are added to fertilizer as micronutrients to stimulate ...

Cucumber fruit spines—once thought to be mere surface features—hold the key to understanding how plants control their outer ...

Historical Perspective Published: May 1999 A unifying concept: the history of cell theory Paolo Mazzarello Nature Cell Biology 1, E13–E15 (1999) Cite this article ...

The Potash Development Association (PDA) has recently reviewed those factors that can impact on stress levels within a crop ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Stanford researchers discovered how plant cells decide whether to form breathing pores based on size and neighbor signals.

Leafy salads are best served crisp -- that is, unless you're dealing one particular salad green. Find out which variety is ...

Depending on the efficiency of the plant or tree species, it may take as little as 200 pounds (24 gallons) of water to 1,000 pounds (120 gallons) to make a pound of dry matter.

All tree leaves exhibit margins—the blade-like edges of the leaves—that are either serrated or smooth. Leaf margins can be finely classified based on at least a dozen unique characteristics.

The fluidity of the liposomes is essential to nanoparticle–membrane interactions. We herein report a liposomal nanomotor system by controlling the self-assembly behavior of gold core–platinum shell ...