Garden beds don’t run on luck—they run on life. Beneath every thriving plant sits a bustling underground world of microbes, fungi, and organic matter working nonstop to fuel growth. Toss a little ...

Along with sugar reallocation, a basic molecular mechanism within plants controls the formation of new lateral roots. Botanists have demonstrated that it is based on the activity of a certain factor, ...

A paper describes how the moving parts of a particular plant protein control whether plants can grow and make energy-intensive products such as oil -- or instead put in place a series of steps to ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night when the air is cool. New research suggests that during the day, another ...

Findings reveal how a sugar-sensing protein acts as a "machine" to switch plant growth — and oil production — on and off UPTON, N.Y. — Proteins are molecular machines, with flexible pieces and moving ...