A new study shows how plants balance growth and defense, offering insights for stronger, more resilient crops. Microscopic imaging of stomata cells in plants. Courtesy of the Torii Lab/The University ...

Nitrogen is one the most essential nutrients for plants. Its availability in the soil plays a major role in plant growth and development, thereby affecting agricultural productivity. Scientists were ...

What makes plants grow to a certain size? From the tiniest cells to whole leaves, roots, and stems, growth has to be carefully coordinated—but until now, it has been hard to compare findings from ...

It’s well known that plants have a fine-tuned ability to sense changes in the season by how much daylight they’re exposed to, yet scientists observed more than a century ago that plants sometimes grow ...

AMES, Iowa – Hongqing Guo studies a gene that affects both how plants grow and how they respond to environmental threats, hoping to unravel – and then harness – the balancing act between fortifying ...

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...