As winter blankets Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, the vibrant landscape belies the scientific milestone it houses: a ...

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Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

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Hirola” translates from Somali to something like “the peaceful one” or “the lone one,” referring to its solitary habits. Like other antelopes, Hirola are social but tend to form small herds of 10 to ...

Plant hydraulic functioning is a core determinant of how terrestrial vegetation responds to climate change from a functional ...

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Plants are increasingly encountering abiotic stressors, such as salinity, drought, heavy metals, microplastics, and various environmental contaminants, that ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number of ...