Papaya trees are fast-growing and can provide bumper crops of fruits right from their first year. They love the sun and tend ...

My papaya tree appears to have been killed by the recent freezes. I grew it from a seed from Hawaii. It was 2 years old and 6 feet tall and had 12 papayas on it. I grew it in a pot the first year ...

The fruit, leaves, stems, seeds, and other plant parts of papaya contain substances that are known to have health benefits. The fruits possess a large proportion of: Bioactive substances; ...

Q: The young fruits (about 1in-2in/2.5cm-5cm) on my papaya tree drop off all the time. How can they grow until maturity so that I can enjoy them?

A new study identified the largest known genome of any organism in a fern found in Pacific islands. Its cells have more than 50 times the DNA as human cells have.

Researchers have produced a first draft of the papaya genome. This draft sheds new light on the evolution of flowering plants. And because it involves a genetically modified plant, the newly ...

A broad collaboration of research institutions in the U.S. and China has produced a first draft of the papaya genome. This draft, which spells out more than 90 percent of the plant’s gene coding ...

The papaya (Carica papaya) is one of the most useful plants grown in the tropics. It usually grows from a single stem and can reach great heights.

Dennis Gonsalves, a plant pathologist at Cornell University, wanted to vaccinate Hawaiian papaya crops from a virus using genetic engineering. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

If you find it strange that such a humble plant has such a gigantic genome, scientists do, too. The enigma emerged in the 1950s, when biologists discovered that the double helix of DNA encodes genes.

Scale insects infesting papaya stem. I cannot seem to get rid of these lichen-like spots growing on my papaya plant. What are they and how can I remove them?