@article {Artzet805739, author = {Artzet, Simon and Chen, Tsu-Wei and Chopard, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Brichet, Nicolas and Mielewczik, Michael and Cohen-Boulakia, Sarah and Cabrera-Bosquet, Lloren{\c c} ...

The nutrient solution in hydroponic systems is the only source of water and minerals to plants, thus, nutrition and water stability are reached by plants through absorptions of this substrate; and the ...

Researchers from Japan have discovered, Shoot-Silicon-Signal (SSS), a protein involved in the uptake and distribution of silicon in rice and grasses. This mechanism has potential implications for ...

There are a vast number of different perennial plants, and while they differ in many ways, they all follow a similar cycle. At the very basic level, this cycle often starts with a seed. In fact, there ...

The squirting cucumber shows how plants evolve ways to spread their seeds while being rooted. “For plants to generate rapid motion, they have to do something a bit clever,” Dr. Moulton said.

Medicinal plants play a vital role in treating human and livestock ailments. A majority of the population living across the world relies on medicinal plants as a primary source of healthcare. The ...

Plants, it turns out, have evolved a way of seeing with their whole body, one woven into the gaps between their cells. They don’t need anything so clumsy as a pair of eyes to follow the light.

Based on their experiments, the Darwins suggested that seedlings were most light sensitive at the tip of the shoot, and that what they sensed there led to the production of some substance that ...

For this framework, the researchers procured two steps. First, they reconstructed high-resolution point clouds of soybean plants using a low-cost photogrammetry system, and a Meshlab-based Plant ...

Three species of witch hazel fruits, shown (a) on the plants and (b) in the process of splitting open to shoot out their seeds. Credit: J.F. Jorge and S.N. Patek, 2023 ...

The Straits Times looks at how the plant produces up to 30 million gallons, or roughly 55 Olympic-size pools, of water each day. First, seawater 10m below sea level is drawn through two intake ...

Researchers from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently reported that the Arabidopsis carboxylesterase 15 (AtCXE15) and its orthologues in seed plants function as ...