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

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.

Researchers used the genome sequence of Artemisia annua to boost the plant’s production of artemisinin.

The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.

The jigsaw-shape cells found in the epidermis of many plants may serve to reduce mechanical stress on cell walls.

Humanity would be nothing without plants. It’s high time we recognize their crucial role in sustaining life on Earth.

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

After a harrowing escape from Iran, Dehesh never shied away from difficult choices to pursue a career in plant biology.

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