How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

In an article published in Molecular Plant on April 8, researchers led by Prof. Wang Bing and Prof. Li Jiayang from the ...

The figure illustrates the biotic and abiotic factors that affect the structure and diversity of the rhizosphere microbiome. Biotic factors include plant species, soil microbiota, and plant–pathogen ...

In order to utilize this renewable resource for biofuels or other commodity chemicals it is desirable to understand how the plant synthesizes these polymers. Such knowledge may also one day lead to ...