Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major ...

Aquatic plants are specialized evolutionary groups adapted to life in water. They play critical roles as food and medicinal ...

Vegetarian and vegan diets can support healthy growth when carefully planned with appropriate supplementation, finds a major ...

Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work shows that many aquatic lineages instead rewire and expand key gene families, ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that ...

Drylands, which include some of the world’s most arid and semi-arid ecosystems, cover nearly half of Earth’s land surface and ...

Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

A major fire in January at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants in Moss Landing showered 55,000 pounds of toxic ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...