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

While plant stem cells have not received the same spotlight, they hold immense potential for advancing agriculture and food ...

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

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

Sep. 12, 2024 — 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 ...

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

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

In a new study, researchers find that disruptions to the community of microbes that live inside the leaves of a spindly plant ...

Researchers have explored the puzzling question of how competing herbivores in Yellowstone manage to find enough food to ...

Sep. 16, 2024 — Monoclonal antibodies -- treatments developed by cloning a cell that makes an antibody -- could help provide an answer to the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance, say ...

As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

Glen Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ...