A thriving garden is full of life, but not all living organisms are beneficial to plant growth. In addition to butterflies, ...

Thrips are tiny pests that feed on houseplants and can eventually destroy them. Manually removing thrips with one of two main ...

Adrian Dyer previously received funding from The Australian Research Council. Klaus Lunau previously received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. For flowering plants, reproduction is a ...

Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared. By Sofia Quaglia If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect. It can display gaudily ...

CORVALLIS — Snipping cuttings from the garden this time of year can set you up with a private nursery of plants by spring. Whether you plant the results of your “snip and stick” project or share them, ...

This breakthrough allows researchers to visualize where individual genes are active at the cellular level—information that has long been missing due to technical limitations in tea biology. By ...

The transplantation method used to restore seagrass meadows has a direct influence on plant survival. Posidonia seagrass meadows, veritable underwater forests, play a major ecological role. Under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woman in in yellow shirt and green apron watering house plants - Focus Pixel Art/Getty Images Did you know that the ingredients ...

Unlike earlier methods that relied on labor-intensive ground measurements or expensive airplane flights, PACE offers a cost-effective way to monitor ecosystems worldwide. Moving into PACE's second ...

Studying plant vegetative reproduction is key to increasing crop yield and for bioengineering. Kobe University research is making progress in studying the genetic regulation of the process in ...