Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could ...

An international research team, led by Jian-Feng Mao, has developed PlantLncBoost, a new computational tool that helps to ...

A West Virginia University student has identified an elusive fungus that contains psychedelic chemicals similar to LSD.

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery ...

Within those healthy plant foods are superfood compounds like antioxidants that can reduce inflammation and phytosterols that ...

Last fall, a cohort of UC Davis undergraduate students took part in Plants, People and the Planet, as part of Quarter at ...

"ADFs are involved not only in leaf aging but also in disease response and plant growth control," Professor Inada explained. "Further elucidation of the function of ADFs can help contribute to crop ...

Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight ...

“I think we're seeing that the complexity [of communication] is just as great with plants as it is with animals,” says Mamta Rawat, a microbiologist and program director at the National Scienc ...

Plants may have also developed strategies more ... Brazil botanist Vinícius Brito said in a statement. Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, overseeing coverage of a wide variety of subjects.

Published in 1973, the book contained a “mix of real science, flimsy experiments, and unscientific projection,” Schlanger writes. The authors claimed that plants could feel and hear ...

I’m joined today by the author of a new book on the surprising science of plant behavior. Feltman: Zoë, thanks so much for sitting down to chat. Schlanger: It’s so great to be here.