A team of international scientists, including researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, reports a major advance in sorghum genomics: a powerful new resource designed to speed discovery ...

Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living.

Scientists have identified genes that allow plants to pause root growth during environmental stress and restart it when conditions improve.

Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study. Published today in New Phytologist UBC ...

From river corridors and wetlands to city streets and community spaces, students in the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ ...

A new climate-resilient garden is taking root by the sea ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

The world's largest urban coffee plantation in Sao Paulo experiments with 1,500 new coffee plants to research resistance to climate change and pests. Researchers focus on resilient arabica varieties ...

Gardeners learn how to be more sustainable while adapting to climate change during the Philadelphia Flower Show.

A deep genetic mystery has baffled plant scientists for decades. Although leaves, stems, and flowers develop in strikingly similar ways across many ...

The startup is developing AI foundation models trained on DNA rather than text or code, applying deep learning techniques to ...