Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

A new study from the University of Helsinki reveals how plant mitochondria draw molecular oxygen away from chloroplasts, an ...

In most plants and animals, including humans, mitochondria are inherited exclusively, or nearly exclusively, from the mother.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A study out of Washington State University found plants can sense when they're being touched, even though they don't have nerves. One scientist heading up the study says the new ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a chemical fingerprint inside water molecules to determine where plants get their moisture. The method shaped our understanding of drought resilience, ...

In a new study, physicists from the United States and Israel may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants—and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin himself during the later ...