A new study published in Nature Plants, conducted by Professor Neil Bruce of the University of York’s Department of Biology ...

The increased use of a chemical compound to replace TNT in explosive devices has a damaging and long lasting effect on plants ...

Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.

Cellular death is a fundamental concept in the biological sciences. Given its significance though, its definition depends on the context in which it takes place, and lacks a general mathematical ...

Effective January 1, 2025, there will be a new addition to The Plant Cell editorial leadership: Brian Gregory has been ...

Scientists discovered a stretch of DNA in both C3 plants, like wheat and soybeans, and C4 plants, like corn and sorghum, that is responsible for optimizing C4 plant photosynthesis and making them ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

Alessandro Vasciaveo, PhD, has fond memories of being introduced to computers and programming through his father’s Apple II. ...

Many experts believed it couldn't be done, but researchers in Japan have successfully introduced chloroplasts into hamster ...

On Nov. 14, The Biology Colloquium, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Botany and Integrative Biology Departments, is a ...

"Learning and memory are generally associated with brains and brain cells alone, but our study shows that other cells in the body can learn and form memories, too," explains New York University's ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...