The paper P. Liao et al., “Cuticle thickness affects dynamics of volatile emission from petunia flowers,” Nat Chem Biol, doi:10.1038/s41589-020-00670-w, 2020 ...

Having emerged late during evolution, seeds have transformed many plants into miniature travelers, contributing greatly to their colonization of terrestrial habitats. Researchers have just discovered ...

A study by Natalia Dudareva (clockwise from bottom), John Morgan, Rohit Jaini and Joshua Widhalm could overturn the textbook model for how scent-producing volatiles travel through plant cells to the ...

Biologists have discovered a mechanism in mosses that was crucial for the evolution of ecosystems on land. The investigators discovered this mechanism that facilitated the evolutionary transition of ...

Scorpions don’t need to use their eyes to get a full picture of their surroundings: their body seems to function as a basic eye under ultraviolet light. To test the idea that the waxy cuticle ...

We had our first winter snow storm this past weekend, a nice change from the warmer than usual conditions across most of the country. Snow is an important part of our local ecosystems, the plants and ...