High plant extinction rates are projected for southern Europe, the western U.S. and southern Australia by 2100, posing risks to plant species like these eucalyptus trees growing in Australia.
The new EPiC (Engineered Plants in Culture) project at UC Davis will explore technology for growing plants and plant tissues in bioreactors with minimal use of resources. The technology could be used ...
Botanists have known for years that plants can communicate with each other. One way is via chemicals known as volatile ...
The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is leading an effort to turn plants into better medicines. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge explains what we already know about herbal remedies — and what ...
The beautiful Periploca angustifolia flower of Algeria is one of over 65,000 plants recorded in the African Plant Database. Courtesy Cyrille Chatelain The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species ...
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Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...
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