Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to ...

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced that George “Cody” Bagnall, PhD has been hired as the Director of its Field Research Site.

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Morris Arboretum Executive Director William Cullina said the lab fills a ...

By adding a whole new biochemical pathway to a plant species, researchers were able to make a plant that grew much bigger, ...

Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S.

California is what’s known as a biodiversity hotspot because of the large amount of endemic natural life found here, especially plants. Endemic means these plants can only be found here and nowhere ...

Scientists have discovered that a molecule known for defending animal immune systems called itaconate also plays a powerful role in plants. Researchers showed that itaconate not only exists in plant ...

Scientists have uncovered how the plant hormone auxin helps roots bend and downwards towards gravity—a process called gravitropism—even after encountering obstacles in soil.

In the weird world of chlorophyll-free “fairy lantern” plants, there’s a new species to admire. By plant standards, Thismia are truly odd. Lacking chlorophyll, they eschew photosynthesis, instead ...

Sugarfire Smokehouse and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are teaming up to turn science into something savory.

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...