How does water move through plants to get to the top of tall trees? Here we describe the pathways and mechanisms driving water uptake and transport through plants, and causes of flow disruption.

Rice leaf veins are essential for plants' growth and development. They help support the leaves and transport important ...

Vine weevil grubs live underground, so most of the damage they cause is going to initially appear on plant roots and the ...

The team's research, published in Nature, provides the first comprehensive assessment of vascular plants native and endemic to marine islands worldwide. Native plants naturally occur on an island ...

Herbicide resistance poses a challenge to producing enough food for a growing population. Sam Caygill and colleagues at the ...

Vascular bundles have multifaceted functions, such as vessels for water and nutrient transport, plant body support, and electrical signal transmission, and were originally differentiated from vascular ...

New research suggests that plants seem to be emitting sounds and engaging in unheard conversations, especially when they're ...

Spotted lanternflies blacken a tree-of-heaven trunk at a property along Airport Highway in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2024. The ...

Dr. Tom C. Nguyen describes what he eats on a typical day and explains how his diet helps him to avoid heart disease.

We have cones from sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), that produce the largest cones in North America and tiny alpine plants from Iryan Jaya in the Philippines. We have collections of subtle membranous ...