Project Indoor Farm (Project IF), UW’s student-led, indoor hydroponic farm, is continuing to expand its reach in the UW ...

To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens the bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with ...

The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is leading an effort to turn plants into better medicines. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge explains what we already know about herbal remedies — and what ...

The new EPiC (Engineered Plants in Culture) project at UC Davis will explore technology for growing plants and plant tissues in bioreactors with minimal use of resources. The technology could be used ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

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For a plant growing on the forest floor, a beam of light from an opening canopy can be concerning. But new research suggests that plants growing together may be able to warn each other about such ...

The Ktunaxa First Nation owned Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in south-eastern British Columbia propagates over 60 native plant species, with a focus on locally-collected seed. The nursery grows 700,000 ...

Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of major land ...