It was on a trip to Charleston, South Carolina that Terralyn Yim first discovered pawpaw (Asimina triloba).  The third-year ...

Would you eat the forbidden fungi? Scientists have uncovered a mushroom-derived compound that seems to be the most bitter ...

Scientists found powerful bitter compounds in a mushroom, revealing new insights into how our bodies sense bitterness.

Every spring, the students and staff at the Mendocino College Horticulture Department offer the most comprehensive plant sale ...

The molecular world of bitter compounds has so far only been partially explored. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich in Freising and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle (Saale) have now isolated ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by ...

The fungi can’t survive without carbon, and the plants produce plenty of carbon through photosynthesis. The plants need water ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of ...

Scientists have discovered what could be one of the most bitter substances known to date. The potent chemical compound comes from a “bitter bracket” mushroom and has helped shine a light on ...

The discovery comes from a collaborative project between the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich in Freising and the Leibniz Institute of Plant ...

Cannabis laws in the U.S. are what you’d get if a biochemistry textbook and a Kafka novel had a love child — nonsensical, ...