Roots play a critical role to reduce the impact of water stress on plants by adapting their shape (such as branching or growing deeper) to secure more water. Discovering how plant roots sense and ...

New research has discovered how plant roots sense the availability of moisture in soil and then adapt their shape to optimise acquisition of water. The discovery could enable crops to be bred which ...

How do environmental cues steer the branching of plant roots? Insights into how water availability shapes root growth reveal an unexpected mechanism behind the hormone-mediated regulation of this ...

There are a handful of deep symbolic "forms," as Joel Smith, the Peter C. Bunnell curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, sees it. The circle, the spiral, the arrow, the grid, ...

The importance of biodiversity as a nature-related risk in investors’ portfolios has become better understood in the past few years. Read more here.

• Background Many plant species can modify their root architecture to enable them to forage for heterogeneously distributed nutrients in the soil. The foraging response normally involves increased ...