By discovering that plant leaves are coated with RNA ... and Hana Zand Karimi of the Indiana University Department of Biology, Patricia Baldrich and Blake C. Meyers of University of California ...

If you find brown tips on your houseplant, you have to do a little detective work to find out what happened. This guide ...

A new study has uncovered a previously unknown plastome structural variation in the variegated plant Dianella tasmanica, ...

By discovering that plant leaves are coated with RNA ... and Hana Zand Karimi of the Indiana University Department of Biology, Patricia Baldrich and Blake C. Meyers of University of California ...

We can also see the holes that the plant uses to “breathe” and a branching vein that carries water and nutrients to and from the leaf. Click on the right arrow to take a closer look at one of the ...

Thus, one might expect plant leaves exposed to drought conditions to have fewer stomata in sunlit environments. The above discussion illustrates a very important concept in experimental biology - ...

have discovered a genetic mechanism that changes the direction of growth of plant cells during leaf development and thus determines the shape of a leaf. Miltos Tsiantis and his group from the Max ...

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

A new study has uncovered a novel P-type PPR protein, BoYgl-2, which plays a crucial role in chloroplast RNA editing and ...

Leaf beetles can be found to feed on almost all plant groups. They live in the rhizosphere ... Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany, have now asked how ...

The work has been published in Current Biology. Through this comparative ... of symbioses with bacteria enabled leaf beetles to rapidly adapt to a plant-based diet, contributing to their ...