Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Thanks to collaboration between the Iowa Space Grant Consortium, Iowa 4-H and the Iowa State University Integrated Pest Management Program, Iowa youth will participate in a global research effort to ...

Spaceflight presents a distinctive set of challenges for plant biology, as microgravity, cosmic radiation and limited resource availability impose conditions vastly different from those on Earth.

AMES, Iowa – Ludovico Cademartiri had what seemed like an impossibly demanding list of requirements for his lab equipment. The Iowa State University assistant professor of materials science and ...

Researchers who manipulate lignin, a molecular fiber that allows plants to grow tall and transport water, unexpectedly discovered its synthesis has more far-reaching effects on plant development than ...

Plant regeneration relies on a delicate balance between stem cell renewal and differentiation, yet the evolutionary origin and functional limits of key regulators remain poorly understood. This study ...

Thomas Pesquet: This is what Columbus looks like at night now that all our experiments have arrived! The pink light is not for our evening mood, it’s for a plant growth experiment, as it improves the ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has achieved a remarkable milestone with its Compact Research Module for Orbital Plant Studies (CROPS) aboard the PSLV-C60 mission. The cowpea seeds sent ...

Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...