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Off the western Australian coast, in Shark Bay, a field of seagrass big enough to cover Washington, DC, has flourished for more than four millennia, a new study finds.

The University of California, Davis, professor is a pioneer in teasing apart the changes in gene expression that drive root development.

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

An agroecology grad student creates rhizosphere-inspired art.

Water flows between a dead-looking stump and nearby trees on an alternating schedule.

Pathogens appear to steal the metal from plants using the erratic motion of microscopic particles.

A new study describes an unusual water harvesting method in plants.

Pea plant (Pisum sativum) roots that have been inoculated with engineered Rhizobia bacteria glow in the presence of certain proteins.