Explores the structure and function of green plants, focusing on their three main parts: roots, stems, and leaves. Roots anchor the plant and absorb water and minerals through root hairs. Stems ...

More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

Mushrooms spark debate as they're neither plant nor animal, belonging to the Fungi kingdom. Unlike plants, they don't ...

Iowa farmers say a foliar fungicide application can add more bushels per acre by preventing losses to disease pressure and ...

Today, universities face their own KT extinction moment. The impactor is not a rock from space, but a technology: artificial ...

Epsom salt contains magnesium, which all plants need for photosynthesis. Magnesium is rarely lacking in most soils so adding it to lawns is not useful. Only apply fertilizer after doing a soil test to ...

As long as there have been forests, there have been natural events that change them. To understand the effects of the recent ice storm, it may help to review forest form and function. Forests are ...

the research team led by Keio University stem cell scientist Hideyuki Okano revealed that two out of four participants with a spinal cord injury saw improvements in their motor function.