Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves ...

at unprecedented levels using microbial cell factories. By amplifying the production of strigolactones, the researchers now have the ability to study these scarce and mysterious plant molecules in ...

A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories ... Shoots not roots While 16-OH-CLA has been reported previously ...

Soil blockers can make seedlings much stronger. I spoke to the experts about how a soil blocker works, and why it's ...

By co-culturing these two hosts, researchers created a microbial cell factory that produces ... in the shoots and not the roots, unlike all the other known strigolactones. What’s more, the compound ...

Plant RA is influenced by a complex interaction of regulatory networks that involve ... The initiation of RH development commences with positional signaling originating from the roots’ cortical cells.

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 ...

Iowa State University scientists recently made a significant breakthrough in scientists’ ability to identify specific ...

Scientists from the University of Tennessee have made a major breakthrough in understanding how tomato plants respond to root ...

A mutation that causes an amino-acid substitution in a channel called CNGC15 in the plant cell’s nucleus boosts the formation of such endosymbiotic relationships. Studying ion channels in their ...

Introduction: Root hairs increase the surface area of a plant’s root system that is in contact with the soil, thus facilitating plant water and nutrient uptake. However, little is known about the ...