Feeding 8 billion humans requires ingenuity and innovation. Zhenlei Xiao is an associate professor in residence in the UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources Department of Nutritional Sciences ...
Some plants can survive months without water, only to turn green again after a brief downpour. A recent study by the Universities of Bonn and Michigan shows that this is ...
Plant movement has long fascinated many researchers. Legumes are a group of plants famous for exhibiting various leaf movements, including "nyctinastic movement," in which the leaves open in the day ...
There's been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between ...
Growing in the heart of the world's deepest valley are two plants that have fooled scientists for decades. Two species of the "touch-me-not" genus (Impatiens)—the Blue Diamond (Impatiens namchabarwensis) and ...
A Cornell researcher has completed a decades-long program to develop new varieties of tomato that naturally resist pests and limit transfer of viral disease by insects. Martha Mutschler-Chu, a plant ...
The researchers used the new high-throughput stable isotope probing (HT-SIP) pipeline and metagenomics to get the first look at the active microbiome surrounding a beneficial plant symbiont, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi ...
Kiwifruit is popular with consumers due to its unique flavor and high concentration of vitamin C, minerals, and other nutrients. As demand grows and the kiwifruit producing area in China ...
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