Phosphorus, a key ingredient in fertilizers, is running out. The world's food systems depend on phosphorus mined from limited ...

Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves is topped by leggy stalks bearing clusters of pinkish-white flowers. As they develop, these flowers transform into ...

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In California's Death Valley, where summer temperatures regularly soar above 120 degrees Fahrenheit, life seems almost impossible. Yet among the cracked earth and blinding sunlight, one native plant ...

Researchers open up plant chloroplasts for high-throughput screening for the first time, enabling faster development of more ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...

Scientists have devised a way to create a green alternative to the light-emitting materials often used in TV, smartphones and ...

Efforts to develop a federal definition for plant biostimulants are ongoing, but the marketplace continues to face confusion over what this product category is and how it is regulated. Who’s Impacted: ...

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Millions of seeds from across the globe are being kept in an underground vault in southern England. Twenty five years since Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank first opened, scientists hope this growing ...