plants

Hoverflies: The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

  It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of…

3 months ago

The billion-year reign of fungi that predated plants and made Earth livable

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding…

5 months ago

How jellyfish shut down one of Europe’s biggest nuclear plants and why this may happen more often in warmer seas

Imagine running one of Europe's largest power stations by the sea and your cooling intake suddenly chokes on jelly. Not…

6 months ago

Scientists find a new way to help plants fight diseases

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about…

9 months ago

On the origin (and fate) of plants that never bloom

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The Kobe University research…

9 months ago

Researchers reveal why young plants may be more vulnerable to disease

From toddlers in daycare to seedlings in forests, young organisms tend to get sick more easily than adults -- a…

11 months ago

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died…

1 year ago

Rapid return of water from ground to atmosphere through plants

A new study led by scientists in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University provides the first…

1 year ago

Study tracks PFAS, microplastics through landfills and wastewater treatment plants

Scientists analyzed the liquid waste, or leachate, released by four Illinois landfills and the inflows and outflows of associated wastewater…

1 year ago

The reasons flowers wilt could explain how plants spend (and save) their energy

A study in the journal Plant Biology by researchers from Macquarie University and international collaborators has shown for the first…

1 year ago