Seeds like wheat, rice, and corn are at the center of the global food supply and provide most of the daily calories consumed ...

The plant Arabidopsis thaliana is found throughout the entire northern hemisphere. But how does this small, inconspicuous plant deal with all these different extremes of environmental conditions? In ...

Researchers have, with the help of cryogenic electron microscopy, succeeded in producing a high-resolution image of photosystem II - the central complex of photosynthesis - of the model plant ...

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The molecule cAMP, which plays essential roles in mammalian cells, is less well understood in plants. In a new Science ...

Plant roots are far more than simple absorption organs: they can adjust their structure to better cope with water stress.

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...