Researchers have discovered a protein that seals plant roots to regulate the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil, the discovery could help develop climate proof crops that require less water ...

Beneficial soil bacteria help crops survive salty soils by strengthening their roots - a new way to protect farmland from rising salinity.

In plants, the leap from genetic manipulation to genetic engineering will require knowledge of endogenous regulatory mechanisms and the establishment of precise molecular tools to modulate gene ...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced naturally during cellular metabolism often cause oxidative damage to cells. However, these molecules also play an important role in normal cellular signaling.

Terrestrial plants exhibit immense variation in their form and function among species. Coordination between resource acquisition by roots and reproduction through seeds could promote the fitness of ...

A team of scientists from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed an unexpected function of a transport protein and its role in plant ...

The world’s plants remove roughly 64 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the air every year. Plants store it in leaves, shoots, ...

A plant can look perfectly fine one week and suddenly act like it has given up on life the next. Leaves droop, growth slows, and watering stops working the way it should. That shift doesn’t happen by ...

A plant’s root system has a profound effect on its overall health. Look at the roots of a sick, struggling plant, and you will often see a sick, struggling root system. While plants may tolerate ...