In his botanical laboratory at the University of Chicago, Professor George Konrad Karl Link recently made a discovery which he considered so noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to ...

Researchers from the University of California (UC), San Diego, UC Riverside, and Utsunomiya University in Japan have demonstrated the feasibility of using microbial cell factories to amplify the ...

Ghent, Belgium, 10 March 2025 – New research from an international team of plant biologists, led by researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, has revealed crucial insights into ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2. The intricate interplay of plant hormones is pivotal in regulating various aspects of plant growth and development, from seed ...

Whatever challenges life throws, mothers often know best as they guide offspring through the risky stages of early ...

Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually, conditions like heat and drought lead to this stress, and when they’re stressed, plants might not grow as large or produce as much. This ...

(From left to right) Dr Omkar Kulkarni, currently a research scientist at the L’Oréal – SCELSE joint lab; Samantha Phua, PhD student at NUS and SCELSE; and A/Prof Sanjay Swarup, Principal Investigator ...

Nicotiana benthamiana plants in a lab at UC Davis. Plants form new branches when a hormone called strigolactone breaks down. UC Davis plant biologists have now defined the enzymes that break down ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, colored scanning electron micrograph. Through a single mutation to their insulin signaling pathway, scientists can increase the lifespan of C. elegans worms by up to 10-fold.