Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a mutation that makes normal Arabidopsis plants (left) deficient in sterol (right). They did extensive genetic and biochemical experiments…
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Phytoplasma effector SAP05 induces witches’ broom in Arabidopsis. Credit: John Innes Centre Zombie plants, witches’ brooms and the curse that might contain a cure. A…
When it rains, plants are not only showered with water, but also microbes. These rain-borne microbes have the opportunity to become part of a plant’s…
This image shows what pollen looks like with Acinetobacter, a genus of bacteria common in flowers. Many of the pollen grains are germinating and bursting.…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer…
The image shows an early stage flower of Arabidopsis thaliana. Using confocal microscopy, Shang Erlei et al. found that KNUCKLES (KNU), encoding a C2H2-type zinc…
Early Land Plants Evolved From Freshwater Algae, Fossils Reveal The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a new report in…
A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a bioprocess using engineered yeast that completely and efficiently converted plant matter consisting of…
Flower of Triantha occidentalis in a bog at Cypress Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. Credit: Danilo Lima First new carnivorous plant identified by botanists in…
Cacao pod on a cacao tree. Molecular geneticists have known for about a decade that genomic structural variants can play important roles in the adaptation and speciation…
The striped shore crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes) is a small crab found all along the West Coast of North America, and it is extremely abundant in…
Postdoctoral fellow Yunjun Zhao, the lead author on the paper, and Brookhaven Lab biochemist Chang-Jun Liu with poplar plants in the greenhouse at Brookhaven National…
Triantha occidentalis produces flowering stalks with sticky hairs that can trap insects. New research confirms that the plant can digest these trapped prey. Credit: Danilo…
Photo of a Romanesco. Credit: © Nathanael Prunet Where does the shape of the Romanesco cauliflower come from? The mystery of the formation of one…
New research shows genome duplication in the ancestor of modern gymnosperms, a group of seed plants that includes cypresses and pines, might have directly contributed…
How do you study a group of organisms with over 300,000 species, dispersed across all seven continents, and with up to 50 times as much…
Shiikuwasha have an important commercial value in Okinawa and are used to create many different products. Within Okinawa, Oogimi and Katsuyama are the biggest citrus…
CLSY3 (fused with a yellow fluorescent protein) is specifically expressed in the tapetal cells surrounding the germ cells. Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is…
Wild fruits from Southern Africa show good potential to supplement diets with the building blocks of protein. Researchers from the University of Johannesburg studied 14…
COVID-19’s socio-economic effects will likely cause another severe production crisis in the coffee industry, according to a Rutgers University-led study. Credit: Zack Guido COVID-19’s socio-economic…