Almost 400,000 plant species exist, and every one of them is threatened by organisms ranging in size from microscopic fungi and bacteria all the way up to elephants searching for something to eat.

Plants evolve specialized defense chemicals through the combined effects of genes, geography, demography and environmental conditions. Plants evolve specialised defence chemicals through the combined ...

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 ...

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

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. It may sound strange but plants can remember stress. Scientists are still learning about how plants do this ...