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

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It's fascinating how plants adapt and their structures and their interactions and their symbiosis with each other. (SOUNDBITE OF BLUE DOT SESSIONS' "LITTLE WE KNOW") WURST: The mycorrhizal network is ...

Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?

This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...