Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants process external signals. When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many ...

Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process ...

Recent advances in plant biology have underscored the intricate network through which plants regulate growth and adapt to fluctuating energy supplies. Central to this network is the interplay between ...

The Secret Language of Plant Stress Signals When plants face stress, they activate a signaling cascade involving multiple ...

Electrical signalling plays a pivotal role in how plants perceive and respond to their environment. Rapid electrical impulses, including action potentials (APs) and slower variation potentials (VPs), ...

Goldenrod can perceive other plants nearby without ever touching them, by sensing far-red light ratios reflected off leaves. When goldenrod is eaten by herbivores, it adapts its response based on ...

Malathy Palayam, Aleczander Young, Lior Tal, and Nitzan Shabek at the UC Davis Department of Plant Biology are exploring the mechanism by which the plant hormone strigoractone regulates a massive ...

Researchers at Purdue University and UC Davis have found that petunias cannot properly form reproductive structures without chemical signals delivered between different parts of the plant. The work ...

Duoyan Rong, Shuai Zhao, Wenxin Tang, Nan Luo, Hai He, Zhuqing Wang, Huimin Ma, Yimei Huang, Xiaoxun Yao, Xue Pan, Lin Lv, Jiajing Xiao, Renyi Liu, Shingo Nagawa, Chizuko Yamamuro Proceedings of the ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...