A new study suggests that plants deceive their neighbors using fungi, faking warning signals in order to compete.

Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but at the University of Missouri, plant biochemist Jay Thelen is using it as a ...

Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications reveals how the way tree species are arranged in a forest can help optimize ...

Phytoform Labs is on a mission to shore up the nation’s food supplies using artificial intelligence (AI)-backed biotechnology, and the humble tomato.

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

More alike than we think: UVA researchers find a similar pattern of distribution among plants, animals and microbes. (Illustration by John DiJulio, University Communications) ...

Neurologists have the roundworm. These are model organisms: plants and animals that scientists in each of these fields study to make sense of almost all other plants and animals in the world.

As sessile organisms, plants are incredibly mindful of their time. As a result, they extensively regulate cellular and physiological processes through a combination of circadian (anticipatory) and ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

PlantRNA-FM, an AI model created by researchers at the John Innes Centre and the University of Exeter, deciphers the genetic “language” of plant RNA by analyzing patterns in RNA sequences and ...