For decades, the basics of plant growth have been taught in grade school: Plants make their food out of water from the soil, light from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air in a process called ...

How do plants achieve their remarkably regular arrangement of leaves and flowers? And why does this pattern remain so stable, even as plants grow and respond to their environment? Researchers at ...

A thriving garden does not always begin with a seed packet or a trip to the garden center. Some of the most satisfying plants ...

Soil erosion is widely known for degrading land and reducing agricultural productivity. But new research shows it may also ...

A carrot top hits the trash. A scallion root dries out on the counter. A pineapple crown gets sliced off and forgotten. That routine throws away more than scraps. It tosses out potential. With a ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually, conditions like heat and drought lead to this stress, and when they’re stressed, plants might not grow as large or produce as much. This ...

Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas cactus are related plants that are all extremely easy to propagate. When you trim these plants up to encourage more blooms or to neaten leggy stems, save a few of ...