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The growing season on the tundra is starting earlier as the planet warms, but the plants aren’t sequestering more carbon, a new study finds.

Canada has ordered 76 million doses of Covifenz, the main ingredient of which was manufactured in the leaves of a tobacco relative.

Scientists warn that climate change–induced early flowering could have negative effects on wildlife, agriculture, and gardening.

Whole genome sequences reveal multiple domestications of this agriculturally important tree and may hold the secrets to producing the sweet fruit year round.

The first reference-quality genome for this grass species could aid managers in understanding and eradicating this highly invasive plant.

An analysis of more than half a million trees reveals that many species begin to taper off seed production once they hit a certain size.

Spores found in 480 million-year-old rock bring the fossil record in line with molecular estimates of when plants first adapted to life on land.

Phylogenomics data place the enigmatic plankton in the middle of the algal family tree, despite their apparent lack of plastids—an organelle characteristic of all other algae.

Whether the galls that aphids make on witch hazel leaves are red or green is associated with a gene expressed in the insects’ salivary glands.

Their relocation explains horizontal genome transfer first described more than a decade ago.

Researchers disentangle complex connections among vegetation, herbivores, and dung in the South African savanna.

In South Africa, the composition of droppings varies by species’ body sizes, and which animals are found where depends on vegetation density.

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.

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

The antimicrobial compounds ants excrete to defend themselves from pathogens may protect plants as well.

Trigger hairs on the lobes of the trap are tuned to respond to wriggling prey.

Microscopic plant remnants found near the bones indicate that the ancient humans practiced burying rituals, but the archaeological field is not in full agreement.

Evolution imbued ants with an agriculture strategy that optimizes food rewards.