Its smooth green leaves often serve a soothing purpose. But research suggests this familiar houseplant could provide another key benefit.

Millions of people worldwide live with mitochondrial diseases. These are inherited conditions that make it hard for the ...

With a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Chi Zhang, ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan, March 18 (UPI) -- Japanese scientists investigating the biological cycle in plants say they have detailed the functions of three proteins that regulate plant development. Researchers ...

In plants and animals, the NLR family of receptors perceives non-self and modified-self molecules inside host cells and mediates innate immune responses to microbial pathogens. Despite their similar ...

When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist, forests represent a much more complex world consisting of different species. This diversity of ...

There can be confusion about how plant and pharmaceutical medicines work; particularly about how plant medicine works on a variety of conditions when pharmaceuticals appear to work on individual ...

Most of the interaction between microbes and plants occurs at the interface between the roots and soil. Biologists have isolated novel bacteria from plant root environments and combined the new ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being ...

The function of MADS-box genes in flower and fruit development has been uncovered at a rapid pace over the past decade. Evolutionary biologists can now analyse the expression pattern of MADS-box genes ...