Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

French biotech startup Neoplants is genetically engineering soil bacteria and houseplants to metabolize pollutants.

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Researchers at National Taiwan University discovered how light stabilizes a key stress-response protein, offering insights ...

Treated plants fight pests without the need for toxic pesticides, oozing a "larval toffee" that stunts tomato pinworms’ growth and attracts predators.

Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and ...

A new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment shows that pests such as the fall armyworm (Spodoptera ...

Climate change is intensifying environmental challenges, with increasing soil salinization and prolonged drought periods ...

Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary history. A rare fossil of Prototaxites, a 30-foot-tall fungus that lived ...

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer The incorporation of Indigenous knowledge has been widely disregarded in western sciences. Due to racism and colonialism, Indigenous knowledge is often reduced to ...