During plants’ cell division, mother cells give daughter cells a signal to show them which way is up.

The European Union says no thanks.

An entrepreneurial attitude helped this Vienna-based researcher begin to unravel the complex receptor network that Arabidopsis uses to develop and defend itself.

To maintain an energy-saving growth strategy in the absence of light, seedlings need signals generated by pectin in their cell walls.

It has become increasingly evident that, like animals, plants are not autonomous organisms but rather are populated by a cornucopia of diverse microorganisms.

Plants have so much to teach us.

Unlike animals, plants stably pass on their DNA methylomes from one generation to the next. The resulting gene silencing likely hides an abundance of phenotypic variation.

Instrumental in launching Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, Elliot Meyerowitz has since driven the use of computational modeling to study developmental biology.

Warmth acts on a light-sensing protein similarly to the way shade does, setting off a growth spurt in plant seedlings.