Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the ...

Hunter-gatherers in Europe carefully selected ingredients and cooked complex foods, often pairing fish with specific plants, ...

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

Japanese red elder plants safeguard their own survival when they drop fruits infested by Heterhelus beetle larvae, as well as ...

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi – an important symbiosis for absorbing essential ...

Out in the British countryside, the examples of mutualism are as multifarious as they are marvellous. Take, for starters, a hypothetical good old meadow with ant hills strewn like grassy scatter ...

Abstract: Besides the life-as-it-could-be driver of artificial life research there is also the concept of extending natural life by creating hybrids or mixed societies that are built from natural and ...

Eating a plant-based diet is good for your health, but not if those plant foods are ultra-processed, a new study has found. The findings show that all plant-based diets aren’t the same, and that plant ...

So you lost plants this year to May’s slogfest and then to summer’s dry heat? The full toll might not even be apparent until next spring when dead/damaged plants try to shift back into growth mode. It ...

A symbiotic relationship is a long-term interaction between animal species that is beneficial for one or both animals. There are different forms: It’s mutualism we’ll mostly look at today. Two types ...

Leguminous plants can establish endosymbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing soil rhizobacteria. Bacterial infection and nodule organogenesis are two independent but highly coordinated genetic ...

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. Which plants do you think are notable, or at least interesting, in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...