The Not So Secret Life of Plants” features 50 paintings from 33 artists in the Orlando Science Center’s Fusion: A STEAM ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.

Vytal Plant Science Research, a nonprofit organization that supplemented STEM training at three middle schools this year, opened a technology laboratory in Lackawanna College’s downtown center ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Julian Shepersky created his first genetically unique carnivorous plant as a sophomore at Albany High School. Now he has several hundred plants, which he has to leave behind when he goes to college.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Molecule linked to metabolism found to boost plant growth Largely unexplored in plants, “itaconate” stimulates seedling development, offering a path to enhancing valuable food crops Peer ...