Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...

Researchers emphasized that public awareness remained a major contributing factor, with study author Barbara Barta explaining ...

Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — A study out of Washington State University found plants can sense when they're being touched, even though they don't have nerves. One scientist heading up the study says the new ...

In a new study, physicists from the United States and Israel may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants—and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin himself during the later ...

A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process that allows wild plants to breed across species -- one of plants' most powerful evolutionary forces.

AMES, Iowa – A new study led by Iowa State University researchers shows how artificial light has affected the natural seasonal processes of plants in urban regions of the United States. The study, ...

What if scientists could study human psychiatric illness in plants? Yale researchers think it’s possible and they’ve taken an important first step. In a study published June 2 in Cellular and ...

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