The integration of advanced lighting technologies has fundamentally transformed our understanding of plant growth under controlled environments. The effects of light quality—defined by its spectral ...

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions. For research, plants are frequently grown under stable lighting, which does not reflect natural conditions. In a series of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study shows that targeting plants with red and blue LEDs provides energy-efficient lighting in contained environments, a finding that could advance the ...

Scientists have managed to make plants grow without sunlight. The process uses an artificial method of photosynthesis to let the plants grow in complete darkness. Once improved, it could allow ...

Winter often feels like a challenging time for gardeners, with the sun barely climbing above the horizon and daylight hours dwindling rapidly. I remember the first winter I tried to keep my indoor ...

Plants typically need light to grow. However, some plants don’t like having a grow light overhead. myHOMEBOOK gardening expert Franka Kruse-Gering introduces five plants that prefer less light in ...

For too long, urban environments have cut people off from nature. For too long, urban landscapes destroyed nature and replaced it with concrete, steel and glass. Ample found a way to add nature into ...

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...

New research shows how melatonin supports plant growth, stress recovery, and roots, with soil microbes adding powerful ...

Experiments suggest that it might become possible to nourish plants without photosynthesis—a tool that could one day help feed astronauts and a crowded planet. Canola seedlings can take up acetate, a ...