Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...

Until now, ecologists missed the signal because they focused on plant-to-plant distances. At that scale, drylands look ...

Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ...

A NASA-funded study finds that changing rainfall patterns over much of the United States in the last century have allowed plants to grow more vigorously and absorb more carbon dioxide from the ...

Researchers investigating the evolution of leaves discovered a rare insight into leaf arrangement through 3D models of the ...

A new study unearthed patterns in datasets collected on rice plants across Asia that allowed researchers to develop a matrix to predict the traits of rice plants depending on their genetics and ...

Patterns in when and how much plants grow have changed markedly over the past 30 years, scientists report March 2 in Nature Climate Change. Researchers looked at satellite data of vegetation on the ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...

LUDLOW, Mass. (WWLP) – The recent weather patterns have made life difficult for gardeners. 22News is working for you with how to protect your plants when the weather keeps changing. Its warm, its cold ...

It is often said that truly novel discoveries arise when experiments do not go as planned. This is certainly true of one of the earliest observations of an RNA-mediated gene silencing mechanism by ...

AMES, Iowa – A recently published study led by Iowa State University scientists applied a fresh perspective to vast amounts of data on rice plants to find better ways to predict plant performance and ...