New research reveals a balance between two important aspects of forest resilience: the ability to resist damage during a weather event and the ability to recover afterward.
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Securing sustainable food supplies is a key challenge for long-term human exploration and potential habitation of the Moon. The Moon's soil contains no organic material, and essential plant nitrogen sources like ammonia and nitrate are virtually nonexistent.
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For plants, light is an important environmental factor not only as a source of energy for photosynthesis, but also as a signal for capturing environmental information. Light signals are sensed by photoreceptor proteins called phytochromes. The amino acids that make…
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Conservationists are in a race against time to prevent one of the world’s rarest island plants from disappearing forever, after seeds collected from the only surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree arrived at the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Kew Wakehurst in Sussex.
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When under stress, plants cut back on energy production to focus on breaking down damaged proteins.
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For most of their lives, plants get their energy from photosynthesis. But during the seed to seedling stage when they can’t absorb light just yet, they rely on other sources, like fatty acids. To process the fatty acids, plant cells,…
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In parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, feathery yellow goldenrod and stands of big bluestem sway alongside Indiangrass and other prairie plants, stretching up to eight feet tall.
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A new study connects plant and insect physiology, chemical ecology, molecular function, and evolutionary analysis to offer a new perspective on plant–insect coevolution.
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The biosynthesis pathways of alkaloids and carotenoids in this flowering desert plant are the result of different evolutionary processes.
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To survive in areas where it is difficult to photosynthesize, some organisms adopt unique strategies. Researchers have found that a freshwater alga captures far-red light as an additional energy source by arranging ordinary chlorophyll in an extraordinary way.
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