Insects stuck in sundews’ sticky goo break down faster when the plants host an enzyme-making fungus.
A blanket of clay soil helped the wood hold onto the carbon it had absorbed — for thousands of years.
Plants use carbon from the air to make food and build shoots, roots and more. They adapt and respond to their environments in many incredible ways.
With an offer of a nectar meal, ferns and flowering plants have been bribing ants to fend off predatory insects — since before the rise of T. rex.
A newly named species of fairy lantern — a parasitic plant — sports tentacles and grows among leaf litter and rotten logs in Malaysian rainforests.
Mini greenhouses in the wild show how the tiny organisms lurking underground in a ‘sleepy biome’ could play a big role in climate change.
Three genes may limit the ability of rice to handle dry or salty conditions. A Regeneron ISEF finalist shows that CRISPR could target and change them.
The discovery may reveal how plants time nectar production and share information with neighboring blooms.
Thank photosynthesis for the existence of all complex life on Earth — including us.
