If you fertilize plants in winter when they're not growing, you risk damaging them in five ways. This guide looks at when and ...

If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously ...

For many years, scientists believed rising CO₂ levels would help Earth’s plants significantly slow climate change. As carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere, plants were expected to grow faster ...

The peptide, named NON-DEFENSIN PEPTIDE ATTRACTANT 1 (NPA1), represents the first non-defensin-type attractant identified in dicots and expands the known diversity of fertilization cues in flowering ...

In the flowering plant world, reproduction means an intricate succession of events. It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive ...

A simplified model describing the mutual gamete activation during double fertilization in Arabidopsis. Before fertilization EC1 proteins accumulate in secretory vesicles of the egg cell (A). Likewise, ...

XUAN CANH, Vietnam--Truong Thi Nha stands just four and a half feet tall. Her three grown children tower over her, just as many young people in this village outside Hanoi dwarf their parents. The ...

Many things contribute to optimal plant and garden health: picking the right plant variety in the first place, planting it in the right soil (and in a spot with right number of hours of sun per day), ...

They’re a southern staple and commonly cooked on New Year’s for good luck, but black-eyed peas could also be a widely adopted alternative to nitrogen-based fertilizer in the future. According to ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...