Plants
- Plants
How a Venus Flytrap Snaps Shut
A Venus flytrap stores energy to allow its hinged leaves to snap shut quickly.
- Agriculture
Growing healthier tomato plants
How well tomatoes grow depends on how the plants are mulched and fertilized.
- Plants
Plants travel wind highways
Some plants can hitchhike along invisible freeways of wind to reach distant places.
- Plants
New gene fights potato blight
Adding a gene from a wild potato to the varieties we eat could stop a devastating potato disease.
- Plants
City trees beat country trees
Cottonwood trees grow better in New York City than in rural places around the state.
- Plants
Slower growth, greater warmth
A shift toward slower-growing trees might make Earth's climate warm up even faster.
- Plants
Tracking the sun Improves plant pollen
Turning to face the sun helps snow buttercups make better pollen.
