Researchers at Michigan State University have uncovered a surprising mechanism that plants use to regulate their growth — one ...

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions. For research, plants are frequently grown under stable lighting, which does not reflect natural conditions. In a series of ...

However, until now, only indirect evidence was available to support the hypothesis that a rise in plant competition for light was responsible for declines in diversity. Supporting data include, for ...

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Glow-in-the-dark plants are not new. In fact, scientists created ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

Scientists from the University of Zurich and Agroscope have now demonstrated for the first time that artificial light at night also adversely affects insects' pollination behavior during the daytime.