In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

Mushrooms spark debate as they're neither plant nor animal, belonging to the Fungi kingdom. Unlike plants, they don't ...

While observing the impacts herbivores had on plant growth 40 years ago, Ken Paige made a discovery that could transform ...

In these bubbling basins, you’ll find some of the hardest workers in Lawrence’s water treatment system — microorganisms that ...

We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, ...

"Traditionally, research on plant development focused on the epidermis as the key tissue dictating organ growth," said Kierzkowski, a molecular biologist in UdeM's Department of Biological Sciences.

“These findings reveal a fundamental process in nature,” says Dr Lirong Cai from the University of Göttingen and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). “Given enough time, ...

About 98% of lignin created as a forestry by-product from plants is discarded ... which is also found in softwood, but no biological breakdown process had been identified that could use the ...

Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Northwest University Xi’an 710069, P. R. China These authors contributed equally to this paper and share ...

The world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons and in today’s volatile geopolitical climate we can ill-afford to let this moral safeguard “erode”, the UN’s High Representative for ...