Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical ...

Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

The plant biology major consists of core biological sciences courses plus four plant-specific classes dealing with advanced aspects of plant biology such as physiology, development and anatomy. Two ...

If you’re one of the folks who looks forward to pumpkins every fall, the long summer wait can be tough. For farmers, the ...

Plants face simultaneous abiotic (drought, salinity, heat) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses in natural and agricultural ...

Botany, plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that ...

Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not ...

Sebastian Cocioba’s clapboard house on Long Island doesn’t look much like a cutting-edge plant biology lab. Then you step inside and peer down the hallway to see a small nook with just enough ...

Priya Ranjan works at the intersection of computational biology and bioinformatics, focusing on plant-microbe interactions, ...

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

Stock image of a plant growing (main) and music from a speaker (inset). Researchers have found that playing noise improves the growth of a soil fungus that promotes the growth of plants.

I'm going to do biology." Cornish said she was always a "science-track kid" in school, holding biology as one of her three favorite subjects growing up—alongside art and music. And while she ...