Scientists use fossil pollen to study ancient plant diversity and guide future conservation action strategies worldwide.

Young plants that resist disease grow fewer flowers later, limiting their reproduction. Adult plants resist disease without this cost.

The rapid loss of plant genetic diversity poses a serious threat to food security, biodiversity, and climate resilience.

From toddlers in daycare to seedlings in forests, young organisms tend to get sick more easily than adults—a phenomenon that ...

"It's a mystery why young organisms don't evolve stronger disease resistance because getting sick early in life can be deadly," said study co-author Emily Bruns, an assistant professor of biology at ...

To permanently protect 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon, Brazil established the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) ...

Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might ...

In a groundbreaking botanical discovery, researchers from Kasetsart University and officials from the Department of National ...

Ever had that feeling when you discover something so magnificent you almost want to keep it to yourself? That’s Erie Bluffs ...

When Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources established Erie Bluffs as a state park, they made the ...