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Engineered Microbes Make Plant Hormones a Sustainable Harvest

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An Ancient Grapevine Uncorks Clues About a Deadly Plant Pathogen

A cross section of the pistil of <em >Arabidopsis thaliana </em>plant. Pollen grains are labeled with fluorescent markers and sit at the top of the structure. Fluorescently tagged pollen tubes penetrate the plant’s ovary where the ovules (small, curved structures) are located.

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The Hidden Dance of Plant Fertilization

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Getting to the Root of the Plant Microbiota

Niki Spahich, PhD | | 5 min read

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Plants Defend Themselves Against Heavy Metals

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 3 min read

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Bioengineering Interkingdom Communication

Hannah Thomasy, PhD | | 2 min read

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How Do Plants Know Which Way is Up?

Hannah Thomasy, PhD | | 2 min read

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Greening the Fight Against Huntington’s Disease

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

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Chasing the Sun

Aparna Nathan, PhD | | 3 min read

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A New Drug Fixes a Leak Caused by Bacteria

Kamal Nahas, PhD | | 5 min read

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How the Venus Flytrap Captures Its Prey

Rachael Moeller Gorman | | 4 min read

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CRISPR Trees Could Improve Paper Production

Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD | | 3 min read

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Certain Tree Species Are More Susceptible to Death by Lightning

Hannah Thomasy, PhD | | 2 min read

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Ten Minute Sabbatical

Emily CoxandHenry Rathvon | | 2 min read

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Can Plants See? In the Wake of a Controversial Study, the Answer’s Still Unclear

Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 10+ min read

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Plant Biologist Jane Silverthorne Dies at 69

Katherine Irving | | 2 min read

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As Carbon Dioxide Goes Up, Plants’ Nutrient Content Declines

Dan Robitzski | | 5 min read

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Climate Change May Favor Nitrogen-Fixing Plants

Andy Carstens | | 2 min read

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Science Snapshot: Go Forth and Multiply

Lisa Winter | | 1 min read

Ferns bounced back much faster than other plants after the meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Why Did Ferns Persist When All Other Plants Perished?

Amanda Heidt | | 7 min read

A gametophyte of the brown alga <em>Desmarestia dudresnayi</em> that has both male and female reproductive structures

Meet the Algae That Went from Male/Female to Hermaphroditic

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 2 min read

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Science Snapshot: Holily Molily

Lisa Winter | | 1 min read

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