The traps of Nepenthes gracilis use heavy rain as a power source to drive a fast prey capture motion, new research from the University of Bristol has found. The findings are published this week in the ...

It would take many lifetimes to exhaust all the possibilities of plant selection and design options for our gardens. Take kinetic plants, for example. These are species that sway in the wind or even ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 121, No. 7 (June 2018), pp. e1-e7 (7 pages) Background Investigations into the diurnal ascent and descent of leaves of beans and other species, as well as experimental ...

IT is sometimes asserted that the power of movement is a character distinguishing animals from plants. This statement arises to some extent from an obvious confusion of thought. Trees are stationary, ...

HONOLULU–The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) established a new interim rule to help stop the movement of the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) from designated CRB-infested areas to non-infested ...