For many years, scientists believed rising CO₂ levels would help Earth’s plants significantly slow climate change. As carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere, plants were expected to grow faster ...

If the oceans of the world were filled with microbes that used retinal, the oceans would have reflected much more light in ...

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

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 ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, ...

Troy Miller receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Farley Kwok van der Giezen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Ryan Coates receives funding from the Australian ...

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