What makes plants grow to a certain size? From the tiniest cells to whole leaves, roots, and stems, growth has to be ...

Japanese researchers uncovered a universal rule describing why life’s growth slows despite abundant nutrients. Their “global ...

A research team including a scientist from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan, ...

A new collaborative research team of plant scientists led by Ru Zhang, PhD, associate member, Danforth Plant Science Center has been awarded new funding from the National Science Foundation to ...

Cell growth is the most fundamental process in organisms, yet the way in which metabolism determines its rate has long remained unclear. To decipher this mystery, researchers from Earth-Life Science ...

Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn't always have to be the case. A study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant ...

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a ...

A single loading platform for plant growth-promoting bacteria and other active ingredients has been developed. A team of researchers from North Carolina State University (NC, USA) has developed a ...

The research-focused Core Access Fund recently awarded its first two startups and hopes to support more in the future.

Brad Binder receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually it’s conditions like heat and drought that lead to this stress, ...