A study led by Bucknell University Professor Chris Martine, biology, Burpee Professor in Plant Genetics & Research, has ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

We tend to think of plants as passive, vulnerable actors. But in their partnership with insects, it’s plants that often play ...

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

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Morris Arboretum & Gardens has completed construction on their new Plant Science Lab to accelerate research in plant identification, conservation genetics, and species evolution using molecular tools.

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

Glow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction or fantasy. But scientists have already made plants that emit a greenish glow. They are ...