While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell ...

The processing market is dominated by China, but Australia is building its capabilities in an attempt to boost the domestic ...

Human urine is emerging as an unlikely climate solution, and a Swiss startup is betting that what we flush away could help feed crops and cut pollution at the same time. By turning this nutrient-rich ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

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

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

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

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

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Two researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a VinFuture Prize in recognition of their work ...