Cultivating stenophylla, untapped by the coffee industry for the last century, could help farmers cope with the effects of climate change, researchers suggest.

Plant species officially reported to be lost are in fact persevering in the wild, in seed banks or botanical gardens, or as other species now recognized to be taxonomic synonyms.

The University of South Alabama professor, who died of complications related to COVID-19, reconstructed the historic range of plants that once grew in the southeastern US.

An analysis of the En Tibi herbarium’s plants and handwriting has given clues to the identity of its maker.

Human activities may be affecting both narrow-ranged plants and widespread ones.

Leonard Dyck is remembered for sharing his passion for plants with students at the University of British Columbia.

Aphids induce their host plants to produce tiny hairs that help keep the surfaces water-repellent.

A 99-million-year-old beetle preserved in amber alongside grains of pollen likely pollinated prehistoric plants.

Although more evidence is needed to pin down a cause, researchers suspect that climate change is to blame.

Austrian-American botanist Joseph Rock collected thousands of plant samples in his 27 years in the Middle Kingdom, leaving after the Communist Party’s takeover.

Blast off into orbit, where researchers on the International Space Station are growing plants in systems that may one day sustain astronauts travelling far across the solar system and beyond.

A new species of ant discovered in Borneo fends off invaders with a uniquely suicidal strategy.

There are countless ways for scientists to say, “I love you.” Naming a slime-mold beetle after your wife (and another after your ex-wife) is, apparently, one of them.  

The Purdue University researcher is one of the first to examine the molecular processes that underlie infection by soil microbes.

Plants are locked in an ancient arms race with hostile viruses, but genome editing is giving crops the upper hand.

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

Viruses are incapable of reproducing without the help of a host, whose cells copy their genetic material and fabricate the building blocks of new virus particles.

A conversation with plant biologists on the age-old dispute over the similarities and differences between plants and animals.

A maple branch and shattered equipment led to the cohesion-tension theory, the counterintuitive claim that water’s movement against gravity involves no action by trees.