Plants have always played an integral role in traditional medicine and healing practices, according to Kent Vrana, Elliot S.

Systems-level thinking has transformed how we study life across scales, from molecules and cells to populations, communities ...

Plants must carefully strike a balance between harvesting sunlight to fuel photosynthesis and protecting themselves from light damage. Part of this balancing act is performed by antenna proteins that ...

Plants, as the base for ecological food chains, serve as the structural and functional foundation of natural and managed systems. The study of plant science and biotechnology provides opportunity in a ...

A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories -- using E. coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant ...

An international panel of scientists have identified 100 of the most important questions facing plant science. The international initiative has identified key research priorities and highlights the ...

There is only one way to comprehensively explore the vast landscape of scientific publications: download all published papers, extract from them the necessary information and metadata, correlate it ...

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, ...

People are becoming 'disconnected from the botanical world' at a time when plants could help solve global environmental problems, warn a group of research scientists. They say the problem has been ...

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 ...

Morris Arboretum & Gardens has completed construction on their new Plant Science Lab to accelerate research in plant identification, conservation genetics, and species evolution using molecular tools.

The UK plant science strategy establishes “Diverse People and Skills” as an important component of the future of plant science. However, ethnicity data from the UK Higher Education Statistics ...