A plant's number one priority is to grow—a feat that demands sunlight, nutrients, and water. If just one of these three inputs is missing, like water in a drought, growth halts. You might then think ...

A new chemical road map for a process called photorespiration in plant cells could reduce energy waste to increase plant productivity.

Microbiome experiments can be tricky and affect reproducibility because of the complexity of propagating entire microbial communities between plants or between animals.

Ellis Ramos looked into just that: How do plants react to different types of music? His research won first place in the junior plant science division in the 2021 North Museum Science and ...

MOST farmers use expensive and possibly harmful chemical fertilizers to grow their crops. A more efficient and cheaper ...

Physicists have been working on ways to use the power of plasma to boost plant growth and kill pathogens.

In most plants, the activation of defense systems results in the suspension of growth – this is commonly known as the growth-defense trade-off. Until now, this trade-off was thought to be controlled ...

Three 16-year-old high school girls hailing from Ireland claimed the top prize for Google's 2014 Science Fair with a project that aims to solve the food crisis -- with the help of bacteria.