Photograph of green leaves of a crop plant. Some leaves have turned brown from an infection, but others remain bright green and healthy. This illustrates how plants use signaling molecules to warn distant cells of danger and to protect themselves.
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Uncovering the mechanisms behind plant defense signaling can improve strategies to protect crops against disease.

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Rakesh Tiwari, a postdoctoral fellow and plant physiologist at Uppsala University, collects photorespiration measurements from plants in the Western Ghats Forest.

Trees Release Carbon Dioxide to Tolerate Rising Temperatures

Red and green small tomatoes. A new genetic engineering approach helped gene-edited plants grow faster.

Gene-Edited Crops Grow Faster with a Little Help from Bacteria

A fat-absorbing microbead, white and pearl-like, lies on a black speckled surface.

Boba-Like Edible Beads Trap Fats and May Promote Weight Loss

Green clusters of moss on a petri dish against a white background.

Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

Clues in the Coprolites

A yellow, hairy caterpillar is sitting on a green leaf off a thin plant stem.

Deciphering Plants’ Biochemical Messages

Rows of soybean plants with green leaves beneath a partially clouded sky with the rising sun in the background.

As Carbon Dioxide Goes Up, Plants’ Nutrient Content Declines

pollen tubes releasing sperm into ovule

Science Snapshot: Go Forth and Multiply

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Symbiotic Organs: Extreme Intimacy with the Microbial World

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Kirsty Wright is searching for evidence in a missing persons investigation. She is wearing a blue shirt and glasses. Behind her is dense vegetation and police procedural tape.

How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

A picture of Rohita Roy, a postdoc at Stanford University.

Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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