NASA’s vegetable production system, known as Veggie, may help pave the way for more sophisticated systems that could supplement astronauts’ diets during long trips to space.

Take a tour of a forest killed by salt inundation brought by rising seas—a powerful reminder that climate change is affecting ecosystems around the world.

Watch Profilee Joanne Chory deliver a TED talk on her project to breed climate change–busting plants.

In Chapter 5, “The Messiah, the Plague, and Shipwrecks under the City,” author Valerie Trouet tells the tale of wooden structures crafted by Europeans millennia ago and how dendrochronology helped determine their age.

Defects in the response to fire-generated karrikins turn out to be responsible for root anomalies that were previously ascribed to other plant hormones.

Meet some of the people featured in the March 2020 issue of The Scientist.

The plant geneticist has revolutionized researchers’ understanding of how light affects plant growth and development, and is engineering plants to combat climate change.

Hand weeding of fields spurred an interloper to evolve a rice-like appearance, researchers conclude.

To avoid wasting digestive energy, the plant only seals shut after sensing certain prey movements.