A Johns Hopkins engineer co-led a team that has sequenced the genome of the world's most widely used model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana, at a level of detail never previously achieved. Up until ...

Plants with more complex water transport structures are more resistant to drought conditions, making them more likely to survive and pass this characteristic on to their offspring. That’s the ...

Turns out that even with all the research done over the years, plant seed formation still holds many secrets. Japan’s Nagoya University researchers have recently identified a completely new plant ...