Have you noticed how much fun and how rewarding it can be to propagate your own plants? Plant propagation means creating new plants from existing ones. We use a variety of methods, such as planting ...

Plants transport water and nutrients from their environment through specialized pores. Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have shed light on a little-known but essential mechanism for ...

How do environmental cues steer the branching of plant roots? Insights into how water availability shapes root growth reveal an unexpected mechanism behind the hormone-mediated regulation of this ...

Rice roots change their cell walls to move through soil. This helps the plant stay alive in tough fields and may support crop breeding.

Air layering is a method of propagating a woody plant that creates an exact replica of the one being propagated. A benefit of air layering is that the new plant will already be several feet tall when ...