From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving tool found throughout the plant kingdom. Roots "do the twist" all the time ...

Considering trees’ need to intercept light for photosynthesis, the ideal angle of leaves and branches would be horizontal.

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

While most 14-year-olds are busy with schoolwork and hobbies, New York City student Miles Wu has been experimenting with something far more ambitious: using origami engineering to build stronger, ...

November is almost here, and it’s time to get your perennial flower garden ready for winter. Do you cut it down or don’t you? The traditional approach to preparing herbaceous perennial beds for winter ...

(a) Examples of medicinal plants and their meristematic tissues as sources for stem cell generation. (b) Advantages of using medicinal plant stem cells in research and industrial applications. (c) In ...

Green stem syndrome, is when parts of the soybean plant stay green through maturity and harvest. The plant usually has a green stem that is sometimes accompanied by thick, green, leathery leaves ...

Uplift Students will spend their first 8 weeks in a lab studying techniques, data analysis, relevant literature, and scientific communication with the guidance of their lab mentor. Students are ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the days shorten and our nights begin to bring frost, many gardeners feel an urge to “tidy up” the yard before winter. Clean-up is an essential fall chore ...

A thin section of a maize ear at a very early stage of development (about 3 millimeters long). Each color represents the expression of a different gene in stem cells and associated cells. Credit: ...