If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day this year, consider buying some plants for your house. Not only are they good for the environment, but they can actually aid in improving your mental ...

New research shows how melatonin supports plant growth, stress recovery, and roots, with soil microbes adding powerful ...

More than a reminder for the environment, World Earth Day is a call to action to reconnect with the actual dirt supporting us. Honoring Earth Day in today's hectic society, where devices and calendars ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

Events are free unless noted. Please email calendar submissions at least three weeks in advance to [email protected]. ONGOING Gresham Japanese Garden Plant Sale: 9:30 a.m.-noon Saturdays in May.

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Credit: Unsplash. Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...