Perennials, shrubs and small trees native to the Chihuahuan Desert give color to San Antonio gardens while providing food and ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

and parts of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area have been burnt. For now, the true extent of damage caused by the bushfires remains uncertain. Greg Jordan, a professor in plant science ...

Olive trees flourish at the agricultural village at Hayogev (meaning “farmer” in Hebrew), located a few miles west of Afula and near the biblical site of Megiddo. But it is the personal connections to ...

Since its founding in 2006, the Mojave Desert Land Trust has conserved over 100,000 acres, conveying more tracts of land to the Joshua Tree National Park Service in the last decade than any other ...

quadricornis mainly produces spring-germinated (SG) seedlings, which grow rapidly and have a higher chance of surviving. This dual germination strategy functions as a "bet-hedging" mechanism, helping ...

It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this without a brain.

To determine the age of the juniper shrub, scientists used dendrochronology techniques, specifically studying growth rings.

Violas are a beautiful flower to see grow in the spring. Each flower has just a few petals, and in some plants, the petals grow in different colors. Most viola plants will come in a mixture of ...