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

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

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 ...

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.

Higher plant diversity in agricultural grasslands increases yields with lower inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. That is the ...

As temperatures increase and snowpack declines, many alpine plants are at risk of extinction. Though adapted to harsh ...

Twenty-five years ago, the release of the first complete Arabidopsis thaliana genome marked a pivotal turning point in plant ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...