The team mainly explored the behavior of a plant called 'Arabidopsis thaliana' when it was exposed to a pest attack.

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?

“This study required the growth of 3,782 plants to full maturity and the manual inspection of over 20,000 flower-bearing stalks in 34 unique plant lines.” Arabidopsis, a relative of cabbage ...

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a promising new use for a ...

Nanoparticles can, in theory, deliver cargo directly to a leaf’s interior and then break down safely. Scientists suspected ...

This paper examines selection on induced epigenetic variation ("Lamarckian evolution") in response to herbivory in Arabidopsis thaliana. The authors find weak evidence for such adaptation, which ...

A new UC Riverside-led study reveals how common small particles produced by nature as well as human activities can transform ...

On a freezing day in December 2021, I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, to visit Simon Gilroy’s lab. In one room of the lab sat a flat of young tobacco and Arabidopsis plants, each imbued with ...

They found that soon after ethanol-treated Arabidopsis plants were deprived of water, their stomata closed and leaf temperature went up. By 11 and 12 days of water deprivation, ...

Arabidopsis plants, wild type and ethylene-response mutant (IMAGE) Purdue University. Caption. Gyeong Mee Yoon’s research group at Purdue University studies how the ethylene hormone helps ...

In a lab in Wisconsin, Schlanger pinches the leaf of an Arabidopsis plant, and sees its veins light up under a microscope in “a bioluminescent ripple” of a wave of sensation.