The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...

Scientists have identified a crucial mechanism that allows plants to shape their vascular systems, determining whether they ...

Plant species vary greatly in how efficiently they convert sunlight into organic matter, how fast they reproduce, how much nutrients and water they need, how much carbon they store, or how fast their ...

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

A central principle in trait-based ecology is that trait variation has an adaptive value. However, uncertainty over which plant traits influence individual performance across environmental gradients ...

Prostrate growth habit is a highly desirable plant architecture trait that enhances lodging resistance, landscape coverage, and ornamental value.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing draft guidance for a new regulatory review process aimed at determining when genetically engineered plants need the department's approval ...

Giles Oldroyd receives funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Allan and Gill ...

Researchers have mined and combined information from two databases to link pollen and key plant traits to generate confidence in the ability to reconstruct past ecosystem services. The approach can ...