One strange marsh plant can keep itself near room temperature even in freezing weather. Here’s the biology behind its ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...

The stench like death drew excited visitors to the Franklin Park Zoo yesterday. It was Pugsley, a 5-foot-?1-inch-tall Amorphophallus titanum, better known as ?the corpse flower. “It smells like a dead ...

The MSU Plant Biology Teaching Conservatory and Greenhouse is a facility designed to showcase a wide botanical collection to the general public for free. Yet, few students know about the evolution ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered certain proteins may be the key to saving plants' lives when ...

Although we've already heard about plants that mimic the smell of rotten meat or feces in order to attract pollen-spreading scavengers, botanists have now discovered that a certain plant really ...

By combining high-resolution genomic data with AI, researchers are uncovering the regulatory logic plants use to sense and survive environmental stress.

Photorespiration is a cellular conversion process in which plants release carbon dioxide and consume oxygen when exposed to light. Until now, it has been considered an especially wasteful by-product ...

More flowers should mean healthier bees, right? Not always. Scientists studying wild bees in Israel have discovered that greater flower diversity can sometimes increase viral infections rather than ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...