plants

Collaborative research team to uncover how plants “remember” and adapt to heat stress - EurekAlert!

How a wild grapevine gene helps plants survive freezing stress - EurekAlert!

Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge variety of plants

Plants under stress: How rye rearranges its genes - EurekAlert!

Soil microbes remember drought and help plants survive

Before plants or animals, fungi conquered Earth’s surface

Cats and hippos versus plants: What half a million social media posts reveal about invasives - EurekAlert!

Plants self-organize in a 'hidden order,' echoing pattern found across nature. Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources.

Helping to Save the Bees With Plants in Kansas

New study overturns long-held assumptions about how plants spread to islands - EurekAlert!

How a prehistoric genetic split helped plants conquer polluted soils - EurekAlert!

Biochar and plants join forces to clean up polluted soils and boost ecosystem recovery - EurekAlert!

How plants regulate adapting to drought - EurekAlert!

New biosensor tracks plants’ immune hormone in real time - EurekAlert!

Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed

Scientists Unlock Secrets of Plants’ Language of Light

The billion-year reign of fungi that predated plants and made Earth livable

A volcano erased an island’s plants. Their DNA revealed how life starts over

Ants defend plants from herbivores but can hinder pollination - EurekAlert!

Sweet defense: vacuolar transporters strengthen plants under stress - EurekAlert!