MOUNT IDA, Ark. (AP) — The teeming plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the U.S.
A new study published in PNAS shows that tree diversity consistently promotes productivity through fostering greater canopy ...
An early-career botanist joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss his group’s recent study of the decrease in plant awareness and educational opportunities to study botany. A Ph.D. candidate in Urban ...
Lauren Shoemaker, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming’s Department of Botany, has received a five-year, ...
Children must be taught more about the importance of plants if education about climate change and sustainability is to be effective, experts have warned. Children must be taught more about the ...
The behavior could help study a longstanding mystery of how so many plants share small amounts of space. By Gabriel Popkin Life as a short plant can be tough. Taller competitors hog the sunlight, ...
Rothamsted scientists, together with partners at the University of Olomouc, Czechia, have uncovered how a family of genes in wheat fine-tunes the plant's growth and grain development, a breakthrough ...