Morris Arboretum is aiming to unlock the genetic keys to sustaining native trees and ferns with a new plant science lab. The facility, which will sit on the Chestnut Hill arboretum's Bloomfield Farm, ...

This semester at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, under the direction of Assistant Professor Arturo Quintero Ferrer, students have successfully experimented with tissue culture using potato ...

For all the ways that humans have toyed with nature, how we grow and extract materials from the forest and fields remains fundamentally unchanged. To get lumber, for example, we plant a tree, let it ...

SESTO FIORENTINO, Italy-- Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn't easy being green: He runs the world's only laboratory dedicated to plant intelligence. At the International Laboratory of Plant ...

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...

Plants feed us. Without them we’re goners. Through thousands of years of genetic modification by selective breeding, humans have developed the crops that keep us alive. We have large kernels of grains ...

Betsy Bower, an agronomist with Ceres Solutions Cooperative based in Crawfordsville, Indiana, walks southwest Indiana fields from Rockville to Vincennes, taking in the health of the crops to better ...

The $16.8-billion Vit Plant project at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington has reached a significant milestone with the launch of the full startup testing phase. Hanford’s Waste ...