Bananas are one of the most consumed agricultural products in the country. In fact, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

Particles in the air can enter leaves through various pathways, such as through structures on the leaf ... can also travel to and enter the plant’s water- and nutrient-transporting system (called the ...

The world’s tiniest flower is headed for new frontiers. A rose could potentially store electricity. Here’s the latest in cutting-edge floral research from around the world.

CTR1's main job in the chloroplast is to phosphorylate the TOC33 at a specific location—at position 260 in the protein chain of an amino acid called serine. By altering this site in the plants ...

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like ... “It had one of the weirdest bloom structures I’d ever seen,” Hosage said.

Extreme weather and shifting seasonal patterns can disrupt traditional agricultural cycles, making technologies that regulate the timing of plant growth ... to change the structure of DVRs to ...

Unlike ferns, which release spores into the environment, seed plants hold their female reproductive structures -- ovules -- on the plant itself. Capturing airborne pollen was crucial for their ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that ...