Researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives the parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris to insert organs into plants after making contact with the hosts.

Proteins in the sheath of cellular protrusions control how effectively cells can adhere to surfaces. Biological cells often ...

Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites ...

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Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

Plants add curb appeal, but some will overgrow your home or uproot your foundation. These vines, trees, and shrubs shouldn't ...

This unusual plant is one of about 20 closely related species, all native to the southern hemisphere. This particular species ...

The Scottish public gives many millions to landowners to plant trees. Professor Ian Wall argues support for conifer plantations should end ...

Land plants "have a lot of adaptations that allow them to survive this extinction," Bodnar told Live Science. "For example, ...