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The pothos is so proficient at cleaning that biotech startup Neoplants uses this species for its microbiome-charged air-purifying system that turns an ordinary houseplant into an air-cleaning machine ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

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Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.

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“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...