New X-raying method reveals how a fern accumulates rare-earth elements in its tissues

Landscape management could help combat plant viruses.

New study uses laser scanning of urban trees for mathematical models

Adaptation to extreme habitats starts in the seed.

New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.

Fungus gnats might not be a glamorous group of insects but they are important pollinators, especially attracted to plants with dark red flowers. Not much is known about their pollination behaviour and plant species-specificity as they are especially hard to observe in the field. Plants with pitchers, however, provide an opportunity to study the trapped […]

New genomic study assembled the plastid genomes of plum yews to understand their evolution.

Martin and Issac quantified size-dependent variation in eight leaf traits in a single coffee genotype (Coffea arabica var. Caturra) in managed agroecosystems.

New study in New Phytologist reveals that nutrient-solubilising bacteria can travel on fungi hyphae if the fungi provides a source of energy.

Seedling establishment is a crucial bottleneck in plant population dynamics, but seedlings don't behave the same way fully-grown trees do.

Cold hardiness, acclimating and de-acclimating from cold temperatures can help plants prevent or reduce frost damage to their tissues. Through complex molecular networks, plants can improve their responses to repeated stresses (“remember”) and increase their cold hardiness.  Drs Kensuke Kimura, Masaharu Kitano and colleagues from National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Kyushu University and […]

New mathematical model dissects how soybean plants might grow larger in the future.