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

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.

In 2014, Planet, a company based out of San Francisco, California, began launching its miniature satellites into space. Known ...

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 ...

The Plant Growth and Phenotyping Facility at the University of Wyoming is an innovative research hub located on the 5 th floor of the Science Initiative Building in the northwest section of the ...

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 ...

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.