Woody root systems play a pivotal role in plant resilience, soil health, and sustainable production, yet their belowground dynamics remain underexplored.

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

In the face of mounting climate disasters, tribes, scientists, and Southern communities are rallying around a nearly ...

Winter is often thought of as a time of hibernation: trees are bare, the ground is frozen, and your summer and fall gardens are brushed with frost or buried under snow. The outdoor world is dormant, ...

What makes plants grow to a certain size? From the tiniest cells to whole leaves, roots, and stems, growth has to be carefully coordinated—but until now, it has been hard to compare findings from ...

Groundbreaking model experiment led by Dr. Amiran Khabidovich Zanilov at Kabardino-Balkarian State University reveals how light, fertilizer, and CO₂ levels shape plant carbon nutrition—challenging ...

Think you don’t need to worry about watering the garden because it has rained? Think again. “Keep checking the soil to make sure that it is actually moist,” said Spencer Campbell, Plant Clinic manager ...

Siul Ruiz receives funding from The Royal Society. James Le Houx does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and ...

It's no surprise that tomatoes are a popular edible plant— so popular, in fact, that they're the one of the most consumed vegetables in the world, second only to potatoes. Growing them yourself comes ...

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