The Harnessing Plants Initiative is a team of scientists from California's Salk Institute who hope to leverage gene-editing technologies so that plants can help stem the tide of global warming. But ...

Although this method of identifying deep-rooting plants was accomplished with corn, shown here on a cloudy summer morning growing at Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center, it can ...

Highly developed seed plants evolved deep root systems that are able to sense Earth's gravity. The 'how and when' of this evolutionary step has, until now, remained unknown. Plant biologists have ...

Scientists are experimenting with new genetic modification technology that “supercharges” plants to enhance what they already excel at– sequestering carbon. As the world scrambles to find innovative ...

As part of an investigation to boost agricultural yields and develop crops that are resilient to climate change, Berkeley Lab scientists have introduced RhizoNet, a computational tool that harnesses ...

My lawn is developing brown patches and my flowers are going out of bloom in this heat wave we have been having. I am watering more often but it does not seem to help. I need help. More frequent ...

An intercontinental team of 30 researchers composed of mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists and plant sciences researchers has developed new explanations about how root plants grow and ...