After a long winter, send your houseplants on a summer vacation
Most houseplants are tropical plants that require the warm, somewhat humid conditions of their natural habitat. Inside, they ...
Using cover plants to remove pollutants from arable soil
Nitrate, pesticides, metals and plastic agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and ...
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Research reveals the underground 'traffic' between fungi and plants
An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...
Plants 'breathe' with millions of tiny mouths—lasers illuminate evolution of stomata behavior
Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...
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How plants build their cell walls is seen by scientists for the first time ever
The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...
Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...