A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Plants grow best when genetics inside cells cooperate, while mismatched genetics reduce photosynthesis and climate resilience ...

Meritus Gas Partners reports that maintaining optimal conditions in grow houses involves controlling light, temperature, ...

A plant's success may depend on how well the three sets of genetic instructions it carries in its cells cooperate, according ...

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

A world in warming, under most circumstances, tipping toward deep cooling does seem counterintuitive; yet, Earth's geological ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in Japan, said in a statement. “For many years I have been fascinated by plants ...

Could a warming planet actually trigger a deep freeze? Discover how Earth’s tiny ocean organisms might flip the climate from ...