The tiny green bugs you see hopping from leaf to leaf in your garden are more specialized than you think. Treehoppers are masters of survival, effortlessly blending into their surroundings, but ...

A new STEM educational electronic plant monitor and growing system has been created powered by the awesome Micro: bit mini PC enabling children and adults alike to learn more about photosynthesis, ...

Research has shed intriguing new light on the genetics underlying the diverse plant organ shapes seen in agriculture and ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of ...

Unraveling the mysteries of plant growth, a recent study titled “How plants decide their size: Study maps plant growth strategies across roots, leaves, and stems” has shed light on the key mechanisms ...

(a) Examples of medicinal plants and their meristematic tissues as sources for stem cell generation. (b) Advantages of using medicinal plant stem cells in research and industrial applications. (c) In ...

Question. The top of a tibouchina in our landscape was damaged by the cold. How far can the shrub be pruned back? Answer. Like many cold-sensitive plants tibouchina, also known as the princess flower ...

When you first bring home a baby plant, you have all kinds of hopes and dreams for it. You can see its full, lush future potential—but in order to get there, it’s going to require a little training.

Biologists have discovered how cytokinin activates stem cell division in plants. The mechanism by which the plant hormone cytokinin controls cell division has been discovered -- a breakthrough that ...

What is a tree and what is a shrub? It’s surprisingly hard to draw the line. “Biologically, there’s no clear difference between trees and shrubs,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The ...