Innovative diagnostic techniques play a crucial role in managing quarantine plant pests, which pose serious threats to global ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New ...

Plants use toxic chemicals to protect themselves from insects, herbivores, and pathogens. But they also need to attract ...

A chemical radar allows bacteria to sense and eliminate predators. Investigating how microorganisms communicate deepens our ...

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a surprising layer of diversity in tropical forests. Not only are the forests ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research have developed an innovative system called MetaFlowTrain ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris attaches to host plants using haustoria to extract nutrients. The formation of haustoria is triggered by ion channels in ...

Botanists have long known that adding silicon to soil can help some plants resist certain pests. That led the researchers on this new effort to test whether the chemical element might help ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. However, how these regions corresponded to specific sequences of DNA remained elusive. Plant scientists suspected that understanding this ...