Osaka, Japan – Plants have an impressive ability to regenerate damaged tissues, but how they do it is not fully understood. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered the mechanisms involved in this ...

But when it comes to plant soil, the situation is quite different. It isn't necessarily bad for plants — in fact, they rely on certain types to thrive, but not all of them are friendly. If you've ever ...

A secret long held by plants has been revealed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers. The new discovery, which builds on more than a decade of painstaking surveillance of cellular ...

Hydroperoxides are the primary oxygenated products of polyunsaturated fatty acids and are key itnermediates in the octadecanoid signalling pathway in plants. Lipid hydroperoxides (LHPO) were ...

The new EPiC (Engineered Plants in Culture) project at UC Davis will explore technology for growing plants and plant tissues in bioreactors with minimal use of resources. The technology could be used ...

Hard plant foods may have made up a larger part of early human ancestors' diet than currently presumed, according to a new experimental study of modern tooth enamel. The results have implications for ...

Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) form a conserved superfamily of eukaryotic serine-threonine protein kinases whose activity requires the binding of a cyclin protein. CDKs are involved in many aspects ...