Stop cleaning up your garden this fall. Leaving stems standing provides essential winter shelter for pollinators.

Plants form new leaves, flowers and roots at the tips of shoots and roots, in specific growth regions known as meristems. These meristems contain stem cells that divide as needed and form new cells ...

The mechanism by which the plant hormone cytokinin controls cell division has been discovered—a breakthrough that significantly improves our understanding of how plants grow. Cell division is ...

Stem cell research is a hot topic. With applications for a host of human medical advancements, researchers have been working with animal and human stem cells for years. But animals aren’t the only ...

A tough beauty for the forgetful gardener The Jade plant, or Crassula ovata, belongs to the Crassulaceae family. It’s a ...

A severely dehydrated plant may still recover if its stems and roots are alive. Soaking the root ball can restore moisture ...

May 5, 2021 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you’re starting out with a garden, buying enough plants to cover the ground can seem really expensive. Instead, ...

(a) Examples of medicinal plants and their meristematic tissues as sources for stem cell generation. (b) Advantages of using medicinal plant stem cells in research and industrial applications. (c) In ...

Researchers have captured time-lapse videos of stem cells dividing in growing plant roots. By watching how the cells divide in response to certain chemical signals over time, the team is uncovering ...

What is a tree and what is a shrub? It’s surprisingly hard to draw the line. “Biologically, there’s no clear difference between trees and shrubs,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The ...