The innate immune system of the thale cress plant ensures a good phosphate supply, report investigators. For a long time, it was thought that the sole role of the immune system was to distinguish ...

In this 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, a researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, ...

In a surprising finding that challenges the conventional rules of inheritance, scientists have shown that the cress plant arabidopsis can overwrite the genetic code it inherits from its parents and ...

"So come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab." --Dr. Frank N Furter, "Rocky Horror Picture Show" It is an inconspicuous plant with a great big scientific name. This is one that has found its way ...

It is an inconspicuous plant with a great big scientific name. This is one that has found its way out of Europe and Asia, far into the New World and Australia, as a common weed, and now thrives on ...

NASA loaned biologists 12 grams of lunar soil, and it was enough to kindle the growth of multiple flowering plants. Reading time 4 minutes For the first time ever, scientists have grown plants in ...

This news release is available in German. For a long time, it was thought that the sole role of the immune system was to distinguish between friend and foe and to fend off pathogens. In fact, it is ...