Agriculture and the change in soil use produce 23% of the total emissions of greenhouse gasses of anthropogenic origin. Moreover, the expansion and intensification of agriculture are considered ...
Scientists at Leiden University have discovered that plants are strongly influenced by their neighbors, not just above ground ...
Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a new field of research is challenging these assumptions and showing that ...
As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the ...
Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis. From large trees in the Amazon jungle to houseplants to ...