Scientists have identified genes that allow plants to pause root growth during environmental stress and restart it when conditions improve.

Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are ...

Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study published in New Phytologist. UBC ...

The idea of music boosting plant growth has been around for many years, but a new study has found that monotonous noise stimulates a type of fungus that improves the growth of plants. In a paper in ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University faculty members are developing a new facility that will utilize a specially designed robot to gather unprecedented amounts of data on the growth of plants under ...

What makes plants grow to a certain size? From the tiniest cells to whole leaves, roots, and stems, growth has to be carefully coordinated—but until now, it has been hard to compare findings from ...

The more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth, according to a new study. Research made possible by open science provides new insights into plant adaptation and ...