It may be that buds in winter are 'on pause' and they are in fact prepared to protect their contents in the changeable spring weather.

Chinese scientists used data from Magnolia plastid genomes to peer back millions of years to understand Cenozoic climatic changes.

Have you ever found it tricky to get some seeds to germinate? You might have wondered if it was the water, or the temperature, or the soil, or perhaps the seeds themselves that are the problem?

Grape cell walls could explain their susceptibility to fungal disease.

A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology highlights how photos in a Facebook group can complement plant scientists’ sightings.

A review in The Biochemist draws attention to the importance of flower pigments to help plants cope with environmental stresses.

Several fungi had distributions extending into central and northern parts of the continent, illustrating their tolerance of an extraordinarily wide range of environmental conditions.

Plant carnivory, at the metabolic level, likely evolved from at least two distinct functions–attraction and defence.

Drought and rising temperatures can cause massive forest diebacks around the world. When a tree is experiencing drought, “shedding off” the leaves can enhance tree water status by reducing canopy transpiration. Whilst botanists can investigate the effect of drought relatively simply in a greenhouse of a single species, forests are complex ecosystems and require long-term […]

Every day, it seems that scientists publish a new technology or algorithm. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are all powerful tools that can help people worldwide and speed up research itself. One might ask whether these approaches still require some human supervision.  One labour-intensive task for ecologists and conservationists around the world is to catalogue […]

A high biomechanical resistance was found to be associated with considerable hydraulic safety

New laser technology can measure faster and more accurately.