Plants have been cloning themselves for millions of years. Strawberries send out runners, potatoes sprout new shoots, and ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Liège reveals the mechanism by which surfactin, a molecule produced by ...

Plant biology at Miami University is greater than the sum of faculty and staff in the Department of Biology. There are researchers that involve plants in their research in many other departments ...

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Plant molecular evolution offers key insights into how coding and regulatory changes shape the diversity of form and function across the plant kingdom. The ...

Plants use a complex self-regulating system to control immunity, with a newly discovered protein helping balance disease ...

Plants lengthen and bend to secure access to sunlight. Despite observing this phenomenon for centuries, scientists do not fully understand it. Now, scientists have discovered that two plant factors -- ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...

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