How do plants make spiral patterns?

Researchers have developed a mathematical model that can…

Transporting sugars under pressure

New evidence supports an 80-year old hypothesis for how sugars move…

How do plants know when to produce flowers?

Research sheds new light on how cold temperatures over…

Remember, remember…

Plants can pass on memories of stressful situations to their offspring.

Solving the mystery of primrose flowers

Researchers have finally identified one of the genes…

Growing on time

A protein called PCH1 allows plants to co-ordinate their daily growth with the number…

Moving in the right direction

New models predict how plants control the movement of a hormone called…

How rice genes respond to change

Researchers have developed mathematical models to analyze how rice…

The root of the matter

Plants can take up phosphate — an important nutrient — via small cells at the…

Telling TALEs of rice blight

Some bacteria use TALE proteins to hijack plant defenses and cause…