A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in ...

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced the first awardees of the Core Facilities Access Fund – an initiative of Cultivar STL designed to advance research and open doors for startups ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising strategy plants use to thrive when an essential nutrient—sulfur—is in short supply.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered some of the molecular mechanisms controlling how plants -- including important crops like soybean and rice -- will respond to rising global temperatures, finding higher ...

Amid the gently rolling countryside of Beltsville, Md., there is a strange garden that would drive any weekend horticulturist to distraction. Among the odd sights: pine trees that grow only 8 in. tall ...

Recent research has revealed that a family of proteins called COI1, previously associated with defense mechanisms in other plant species like Arabidopsis and rice, primarily regulates growth in maize ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil, marking a breakthrough in space farming and planetary colonization. Using Apollo mission soil samples, researchers found ...