botany

Many attributions in popular publications lack scientific evidence

Research team led by Göttingen University investigates 10 billion RNA snippets to identify “hub genes”

Plants are being rediscovered thanks to community and citizen science

Researchers use herbaria collections to examine the past

Research team compares form and function of island and mainland plants

Study shows that individual plant cells respond to touch by sending calcium signals to other cells

This suggested approach could help prevent any future land plant extinction

Researchers have developed a new neural network that overcomes the problems of image-based plant disease detection

Warming changed timing of budburst, coloration in past century

Researchers now know which proteins plant cell nuclei use as signals to start photosynthesis