UC Riverside researchers have identified a mechanism that allows plants to rapidly slow growth in response to extreme ...

Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually, conditions like heat and drought lead to this stress, and when they’re stressed, plants might not grow as large or produce as much. This ...

Did you hear about the two friends who enjoyed watching birds from up in a tree house? Unfortunately, they had a falling out. Maybe trees don’t really like to be climbed anyway, if a researcher from ...

Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce ...

Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn't always have to be the case. A study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant ...

Experience the entire life cycle of a plant in this captivating 40-day time-lapse video. Watch as seeds are carefully planted ...

Scientists in Taiwan have announced an incredible biochemistry breakthrough that could revolutionize an array of industries and perhaps help offset the impact of climate change. Published in the ...

The idea of music boosting plant growth has been around for many years, but a new study has found that monotonous noise stimulates a type of fungus that improves the growth of plants. In a paper in ...