The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

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Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a promising new use for a key intermediate in vitamin C production, demonstrating its potential to ...

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Using newly generated “optogenetic” tobacco plants, research teams from the University of Würzburg's Departments of Plant Physiology and Neurophysiology have investigated how plants process ...

Plants can move, attack, communicate, and adapt — even though they don’t have what's normally defined as a brain. But do plants meet the criteria for intelligent life?

And yet plants’ patterns and rhythms have resonances with ours—just look at the information moving through Gilroy’s glowing specimens. Mysteries abide, of course.

When awarding him the Charles F. Kettering award in 1994, the American Society of Plant Physiologists called him a "central figure" since the 1960s in advances in the understanding of photosynthesis ...

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Gersony’s teaching style has garnered accolades from current and former students, like Poma Alarcon, who says, “Jess Gersony makes room for every student to voice their thoughts on readings and ...