It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

A professor of plant molecular biology wants people to know that plants have stem cells too. Just like in the medical world, plant stem cells could support human growth and development when used to ...

Guinea grass is a highly flammable invasive plant species, which greatly contributed to the Maui wildfires. The species is ...

Animals from primates to bees have been found to self-medicate in one form or another — and great apes are no exception. One ...

Plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role in controlling cell differentiation and determining gender in vascular plants, using a fern model. The discovery ...

Digitally cataloging the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights ...

When we talk about the microbiome, most of us think of the trillions of microorganisms that live in our bodies, supporting ...

Plant blindness is a growing concern, and one Otago academic has set out to do something about it. The term, coined in 1998 ...

Stem cells in plants are crucial for their growth and development, controlling cell division and differentiation in roots, ...

Jess talks with California State University, Los Angeles Biology Department Chair Dr. Kirsten Fisher about desert mosses, ...

One of the most fascinating discoveries in biology is that cells have mechanisms for dynamically regulating genetic expression.

A research group from the Research Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), a joint centre of the Spanish ...