The sooner a farmer knows that their crops are suffering, the faster they can take action to prevent major crop failure. A ...

Researchers have created a sensor that monitors plant stress, which could one day be a game-changer for anyone with a black ...

In several experiments, the wearable accurately identified the presence of hydrogen peroxide in groups of plants exposed to a ...

Plants send distress signals when under attack from pests, drought, or disease, but these signals are often invisible to the ...

Environmental conditions can cause damaging stress to plants, posing challenges for home gardeners and farmers. Therefore, ...

This study presents a fluorescent nanosensor for real-time detection of iron species in plants, advancing knowledge of iron ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this ...

“Also, existing solar cell production lines could be modified for the sensor implementation,” they wrote in Silicon solar cell–integrated stress and temperature sensors for photovoltaic ...

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have created a wearable patch for plants that quickly senses stress and relays the information to a grower. The electrochemical sensor attaches directly to ...