Today I learned that carrots have two parts. There's the inner core (xylem), which is the vascular tissue that conducts water ...

A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story ...

A potato disease bacterium, ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’, spreads via potato psyllids. New research shows one type, ...

Two non-transgenic genome-edited orange plants — a Hamlin and a Valencia that may resist HLB — have been federally approved and are ready for Florida growers. Nian Wang, University of Florida ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Most of the businesses located along Canyon Road are devoted to art or dining. The owners of a new enterprise ...

A yellow-bellied sapsucker creates a new row of holes in the xylem of a bitternut hickory tree. (Tami Gingrich photo) With its beech-maple climax forest, it’s no wonder that Geauga County is the ...

Purdue Landscape Report: There have been a significant number of questions and problems regarding triclopyr that have come up this growing season. Several of these problems have come through the ...

Many people have a potted citrus plant or two that they keep indoors during the winter and move outdoors for the summer. It may be one of those dwarf trees that produce full-sized fruit. Or it could ...

Aster yellows is caused by a phytoplasma (a type of bacteria) that is capable of infecting over 300 kinds of plants in 48 families, including a wide variety of vegetables, such as carrots, onion, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A sticky, clear substance has started to cling to objects across Central Texas, but what is it? “It’s just a sticky, yuckiness,” said Wizzie Brown, an entomologist with Texas A&M’s ...

Gardeners have been engaged in a long-time battle with aphids, who swoop in and suddenly wreak havoc on their tender tendrils and precious petals in no time. But, some creatures are actually quite ...