New research shows that it's the parts of the plants you don't see that help preserve dunes from erosion.

Forests that have coped with fires in the past may struggle to regenerate as climate change increases aridity in the Mediterranean Basin.

What happens when cyclones hit mangroves? What happens when there are repeated impacts? Ken Krauss and Michael Osland have been looking at the scientific research to find out.

The longer a plant waits to self-pollinate, the longer it has to attract pollen from outside. But waiting too long can have consequences.

The deadly carrot might sound as likely as the killer tomato, but decoding the defences of Thapsia garganica might have a big pay-off in the future.

Trees fight infections by trapping pathogens in one part of the tree. Hugh Morris and colleagues have been reviewing how trees use secondary metabolites in order to control the process.

A new technique to scan tree rings offers to yield precious new data on past climates.

For pioneer species in the marshes, it's a case of grow fast or die young. But the differences in growth speed can be caused by tiny changes in geography.

A coastal plant's ability to cope with temporary flooding isn't just due to its own traits. Neighbours can make a flood more, or less, tolerable.

We asked the members of the in silico Plants editorial board about the experience that has had the biggest impact on their career. This is what they said:   In 1977, while doing my undergraduate study at Stellenbosch University, the crop physiology lecturer, Dr George Craven, asked his students to write a computer program to […]

If you're looking for biodiversity, one good place to start is an unexpectedly harsh environment.

Can a plant learn? Drawing on recent and forthcoming research, Monica Gagliano and Michael Marder suggest that we should be rethinking what intelligence is.