Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

In an era where climate change threatens food security, scientists worldwide are searching for reliable ways to improve crop ...

Xun Jia, Rajat Mittal, Mihaela Pertea, and Sri Sarma honored for outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine ...

To test their hypothesis, the researchers used the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. They artificially produced plants in the laboratory that contained few U1 snRNP molecules. "We were able to ...

Japanese researchers are exploring chemicals that regulate the timing of flowering, with the goal of improving crop yield and ...

Climate change and unpredictable weather threaten global food security by disrupting agricultural cycles. Now, Japanese ...

A n international research team, including Dr. Justyna Olas who is co-first author on the study, has uncovered fundamental mechanisms regulating flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana, as detailed ...

A research team of the Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll ...

Inside Fiton, a greenhouse the size of a coffee table book, attempts were made to grow Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed often found in junkyards and dumps. The species had been chosen because its ...

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

Built upon in situ hybridization and sequencing technologies, PHYTOMap simultaneously visualized dozens of genes in a 3D space with a whole tissue sample of Arabidopsis thaliana. “I chose Arabidopsis ...