Plants
Explainer: How a seed grows into a plant
Plants use carbon from the air to make food and build shoots, roots and more. They adapt and respond to their environments in many incredible ways.
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Plants use carbon from the air to make food and build shoots, roots and more. They adapt and respond to their environments in many incredible ways.
Mini greenhouses in the wild show how the tiny organisms lurking underground in a ‘sleepy biome’ could play a big role in climate change.
Three genes may limit the ability of rice to handle dry or salty conditions. A Regeneron ISEF finalist shows that CRISPR could target and change them.
The discovery may reveal how plants time nectar production and share information with neighboring blooms.
Thank photosynthesis for the existence of all complex life on Earth — including us.
Its yellow flowers can cool themselves substantially, staying up to 10 degrees C (18 degrees F) cooler in extreme heat.
Soil erosion washes pollutants into streams and rivers — but plants may help limit that.
Called lianas,these vines are growing out of control. They may cause tropical forests to absorb less carbon dioxide — worsening climate change.
Urban garden specialist Kwesi Joseph is experimenting with rock dust and plants. He also helps New York City community and school gardens with gardening problems.
Plants across 33 families are known for subterranean flowering or fruiting. But this palm is extremely rare. It does both.